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American Youths

They filled our heads
with so many dark delusions

they glorified devil and vice
dug the grave of truth and virtue
gave us greed in place of bread

built the iron temple of I
atop the hollowed ground of God
lulled us to sleep
with star spangled
anthems of war

They gift wrapped our reality,
trimmed the fat, seasoned it up,
spoon fed us all we could stomach

Millions of youthful imaginations
held captive for commercial ransom,
kidnapped by fugitive TV screens
Minds soaked with
putrid pentagon agitprop,
Virtual fun and game recruit tool
military joystick indoctrination
Desensitized civilian children -
Imperial arm chair soldiers in training

Home-spun realities
sit com moralities
placebo personalities
all carefully marketed
in one bright easy to swallow pill-
TV, now a glowing phantom pixel mirror
Alas, unidentified youths
blindly groom for sought reflections
Horrified by what lacks inside, they
outwardly revert to over-glorified illusions
Specters of puzzled personalities
wash upon concrete shores
lost lads posing as a teenage pimps
gone lasses as preening preteen whores

Oh but I still have faith,
witnessing what they have done to our parents,
we shall awake to the light and prevail!

OH scattered and aflame remains
of tattered, scatological brains
Let us bond, one and all, united
let us hone and sharpen our aim

Unguided missiles of
mislead youth,
Let us rain! Let us rain!
Our impassioned payloads
flood the earth's barren
locust plagued terrain
Let our thoughts flow
like atomic blood slit
from clarity's veins

Don't look outside
next time you feel bored
instead, search the inner
depths of your solitaire diamond core
tap into the personal platinum of will's solid ore
Seek and you shall find,
The uncharted gold mine
the resources of self-knowledge
the books of the system
neglected to help you define

The field of mind is our stage
let us save
let us raise practice and praise
that which for so long
has been
exploited wasted and razed.

Latch onto my heart, take your neighbor's hand,
Become intimate with yourself,
unite with the land,
As one body,
Humanity and earth shall persevere!

poem by Gregory Allen Uhan
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