Are we in a race to the bottom?
Making best efforts to turn potential rotten.
Choking on fumes we pumped into our air.
Doubling down to multiply proof that we don’t care.
While corporate gods decide our trajectory.
Drowning in suits obvious greed and stupidity.
Towers of pollution burn our lungs.
Individuals forego making decisions.
Bowing down to false prophets with a smile.
Another snake oil salesman to top this flaming pile.
While elected officials sell off hopes.
Our civilization is grafted to slippery dead-end slopes.
Baying for fortune as if it is blood.
With each passing day this world is clear as mud.
And yet demands for change fall on deaf ears.
These megalomaniacs care only about aligning ideals.
Leeching whatever can take them higher.
They’re like a junkie crossed with a vampire.
Step on the masses just to get by.
Truth is redundant in a world built for lies.
Simon A Jackson - Writer 