I’m torn

Torn between running and hiding

And finding a way to fight back

There is a constant stream

Of violence

Hatred

Negativity

Stupidity

Arrogance

Fear

Greed

Brutality

Where has humanity gone?

The safety and security

Of our neighbors and children

Has taken a back seat

To corporate greed

And some people’s need

To play with weapons most deadly

There’s nowhere to hide

From abuse and genocide

In some places and times

It happens quickly en mass

But here it’s a dozen at a time

So if I can’t hide, what do I say?

There is no logic in this

So the arguments fall on deaf ears

Too scared for their own

To risk disarming

They are all so charming

Until they are identified

As the most recent perpetrator

Whom no one knew could be capable

Until it’s too late

There is no one to protect us

From those who are supposed to protect us

When leaders are followers

And corporations masters

Pitting us against each other

Slight of hand of hate

While they take and take and take

We’re still dealing with slavery

As they make slaves of us all again

Only now it’s more the women than the men

Our bodies aren’t our own

We are property of the idiocracy

Too often fighting amongst our own.

Then there are issues of race

We’d rather not face

So we find convenient victims to blame

We can’t call out their names

Because there are far too many

But no one willing to change

Since there’s nowhere to go

No path of flight

No safe ground

I guess I don’t have a choice

But to figure out how to fight

How to scream from the rooftops

Like the crazy woman I’m fast becoming

The insanity of this world

Driving a bit into my brain

Crazy for an ounce of peace