Finest Hour
We have long since left our world’s Finest Hour
Due to our beings reveling in corruption & Power
Our world is now being made devoid of truth
Hearts are too easily lead to commit murders like Dylan Roof
Pride, Justice, & Decency is clearly on the back burner
Since young people commit heinous rapes like Brock Turner
Every day now is a blood covered sight
Because people have been battered, beaten, & executed before Miranda Rights
Our youth’s Brains are clouded in smoke, faces in phones
Even peaceful police protest become gruesome warzones
In recent history, our youth is yet to experience a world at peace
As violence & war persists, life is soon to cease
The world is lacerated, needs to be healed by love
We need to make peace more than the elegant imagery of a dove
We’ve too long been at war with politics, media and self
Led by leaders whom by any means seek out wealth
In a world where spilling blood is as good as currency
A desensitized world where violence, unless to self, doesn’t instill a sense of urgency
The self-realization of mortality is coming too fast
We shouldn’t have to calm crying babies who feel today may be their lasts
Some will wonder when the world turned so sour
Sadly, It always was, mass media just updates you every hour
Therein lies the vector for infection
Don’t believe me? Just do some reflection
The powers that be use it to perpetuate a stigma
They cry for peace & justice, but promote war and injustice, Hypocritical Enigma
You’ll always hear of the cop killing of a cafeteria
But never go the one fired for talking to the man filled with hysteria
The real reason Stephen Mader was canned was for not making the kill
Is violent deaths & Sadness the only thing churned out by this media mill?
Not always, but mostly because it gives them power
The power to keep us disjointed, weak, & only able to cower
I see the state of my world and simply glower
With a burning desire to turn back time to our world’s finest hour
- Poetic Ice