Truth and Lies – An Empire Dies

 

Truth and Lies – An Empire Dies

Brought up to be truthful, honest and fair,

told that the answer to life was in prayer,

we all made our way by endless giving,

and when assailed, we were most forgiving.

The promise of more would come down the road,

but things turned south when economy slowed,

the year then was nineteen seventy-three,

recession came back, they did not foresee.

Oil costs went up when inflation appeared,

the future a blank as the dream disappeared,

we toiled on hopes that life would improve,

but as the years passed, our faith was unmoved.

Inflation sucked the wealth from our soil,

success retreated the more we toiled,

jobs disappeared as recessions loomed,

living costs higher, with the future doomed.

Many things didn’t make sense as I grew,

as the more I questioned, the less I knew,

for all I had learned was what I was told,

back then no internet for a mind so bold.

The demon emerged in ninety-one,

a new world order with a U.S. gun,

competing systems all died that day,

while the victors schemed and stocked their prey.

It spread its wings then on nine eleven,

two towers fell, released building seven.

we watched it unfold on mainstream TV,

the language they spoke was insanity.

The World was awakened by those events,

wars were then launched without our consent,

while fires were spread by media lies,

corporate insanity, government spies.

One by one whole nations were destroyed,

by terrorist army the U.S. deployed,

the declared world order was paved in blood,

while humanity was trampled to mud.

And now here we are twenty years later,

a rapid pullout by U.S. dictator,

Afghanistan buries their countless dead,

some sort of victory so Biden has said.

Economies worse our freedoms are gone,

trillions are missing by warmongers con,

where are we now in the year twenty-one,

everything’s gone and the west is undone.

Another World War, depression is looming,

while profits in weapons and banks are booming,

China is waiting to assume their new role,

a new world order for the banks to control.

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The Activist Poet 

911 The Last Man Out

William Rodriguez