Battling the System

Schizophrenic world
Overfocused on consumption
We go, we stop: we go, we stop
Chugging along at crawl pace
Because sprinting cannot be sustained
Yet followers slowly appear
Drift off again until infrastructure
Is built on more than shifting sand
Walls made of more than playing cards
Games people play to feel
Self-important – when, really,
They don’t have very much of a clue
Yet perseverance
Adherence toward the goal
Mischievous desire
To empower a muscle
The brain
… do not drain your brain
by believing the pap smeared
by the media across the mind numbed
faces of the supposed adult population …
Spirits soar when the challenge
Of meeting the unknown is entertained,
Yet battling external demons in human form
Is enough to suck the livelihood from a vampire

(c) 2004 lemme howdt