I saw the best minds of our generation sent straight into the boiling pot of madness. Suffering in the society that has been built for them instead of by them. Riddled with fear, sadness and the loss of love they tore away from the who they were, the lives they swore to live and broke down. Slowly bearing more and more weight, the weight of nine to five, shitty coffee in a shitty cafe on the side of route 66. Sharing their bed with a freeloader who never loved them. Tossing and turning I saw them crash, heading straight for death on a two lane highway in Utah. Finding ourselves melting into the wood work we sprang from lives, those tediously comfortable lives and sang naked into the rain. Tripping over have finished beer bottles in the gutter and falling asleep, the curb as our pillow. Rising before the sun and the cops, stumbling along Potomac street. To the cafe on the side of the road, coffee in hand we sat on the banks of a man-made pond. Watching the geese frolic in the sunrise, the babies following their mother in circles never questioning the reasons, simply obeying.
What annoys me the most these days is how rude people are and without remorse. There are few tragedies that give anyone free reign to be cruel. A simple hello is not an impossible task whether you mean it or not. And five dollars is not to much to help a child get shoes for school. The cruelty of everyday normal people is what keeps war alive, it is not the evil basterds who start them. Only the everyday normal people who do nothing, that do stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. For the people who no longer have a voice in their own country. Everyday normal people keep the world burning, children hungry, soldiers killing, people bleeding and women suffering. I implore you to be anything but ordinary. Be heinous and evil beyond belief or be exceptionally kind, generous and humane. Do not be normal, don't get lackadaisical, get so busy being good that you have no time to be ordinary. Everyday normal people are what is wrong with the world.
I am no longer the child from your dreams, now I am bold and on fire. I am the man the swept in and saved the world, your world. I am the one saved their children from slaver and their daughters from the dregs of life, saved them from you.
What annoys me the most these days is how rude people are and without remorse. There are few tragedies that give anyone free reign to be cruel. A simple hello is not an impossible task whether you mean it or not. And five dollars is not to much to help a child get shoes for school. The cruelty of everyday normal people is what keeps war alive, it is not the evil basterds who start them. Only the everyday normal people who do nothing, that do stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. For the people who no longer have a voice in their own country. Everyday normal people keep the world burning, children hungry, soldiers killing, people bleeding and women suffering. I implore you to be anything but ordinary. Be heinous and evil beyond belief or be exceptionally kind, generous and humane. Do not be normal, don't get lackadaisical, get so busy being good that you have no time to be ordinary. Everyday normal people are what is wrong with the world.
I am no longer the child from your dreams, now I am bold and on fire. I am the man the swept in and saved the world, your world. I am the one saved their children from slaver and their daughters from the dregs of life, saved them from you.
