Prison Planet

Prison Planet

Indoctrination, the dark day arrives

to roll rocks up hill the rest of our lives

Sisyphean schools prepare all the slaves

demanding allegiance, straight to our graves.

Industrialization, hands of greed

furnace of fire, consumption of need

promised inclusion to a wealthy feast

plate of deceptions with mark of the beast.

A mortgage or lease to live on the land

the planet is owned, every grain of sand

all fancy jails, our homes on the earth

with labor enslaved by fires of hearth.

The work force beckons or death on the streets

no place to escape, it all just repeats

both forms of torture bring forth despair

and stress for survival where nobody cares.

Consumer engines speeds up production

with waste produced that brings our destruction

disposable things, expendable lives

with a failure at peak when it arrives.

Destructive system where you are not free

a garbage disposal on land and sea

with roads overheating as stress bears down

supply lines will break, the system will drown.

On governing tables, rules to ensure

all decided so the beast may endure

no changes permitted to ruling cast

a proclamation that is made to last.

A global warming, the blame is on you

not the system of growth owned by the few?

We’ve been here before as history recalls

excuses galore as the empire falls.

Humanity suffers, hangs from a vine

while grape picker taxes empty your stein

illusions are formed if you get ahead

all in reliance till system is dead.

There’s no escaping nor is there a vote

with castles of strife and oceans their moat

the system owns you, no matter your place

born into bondage is the human race.

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Poem written (July 23rd, 2022)

Note: Sisyphus or Sisyphos, a king of Ephyra now known as Corinth was punished by Zeus for cheating death twice and forced him to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll down every time it neared the top, repeating this action for eternity.

Through the classical influence on today’s so called, modern culture, tasks that are both laborious and futile are described as “Sisyphean” – (Sis-y-phe-an)

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The official text on World History is nothing more than a long list of sickly achievements made by sociopathic monsters who aggrandize themselves by making sure they come off smelling like roses to the general population they are preying on. ~ Stewart Brennan