An Apathetic New World

Tonight I sat alone on the steps

and stared into the blank sky;

stars cloaked by smog,

the poison of our own.

And as the bitter air bit down

I held my breath and thought

of all the others on their backs.

How do you organize resistance

against something that's not even there

(but still killing you)?

Dirt covered fists screaming indignantly,

midigate to out turned palms

pleading admittedly.

Raping people of their hope

and the sky of all its stars.

They're dying at your feet

but 'who cares who they are.' (right?)

There's no place like home.

"It's like filling an empty glass

from an empty bottle."

and it's stricken by rigor mortis

with your hand on the throttle.

Grasping at a chance through a wall

of austerity and a fence

of police enforced

by democratic vulgarity.

Two percent controlling the power;

controlling yo,

controlling me,

controling the borders of democracy.

So it's you, and it's me

and we're up against a fence,

control or be controlled

by only two percent.

So it's you,

and it's me and we're up

against a fence,

control or be controlled,

because only we can set us free.