Killing Imagination

If I go crazy

Will I still be able to take a hold of the moment?

   Control it and grow it?

If every thought plants a seed,

    Then why do I still bleed?

If I could just focus on just one thing,

   Then hocus pocus,

Magic is made.

 The only problem is

They’ve come for every second

   They’ve come to sell us our time back to us 

These corporations 

   These apps

These movies and shows

   This government 

    And it grows and grows and grows

It has to

   That’s the business model

That’s progress, isn’t it?

    Every damn second

Our attention

   Our thoughts 

Our life

    We have to fill it with something

So they sell us filler

   For when we are bored

For when we procrastinate 

   For when we want to be lazy

For when we want to escape reality 

    If I go crazy

Can I still push back?

    Will she still love me?

If I point out the fact that we are under attack

   And try to fight back

Will they put me in a straight jack?

    Will I lose friends 

If I see it until it’s end

   They just want to blend in

But I am tired of bleeding out.

   Could we fight back?

Do we have a chance?

  From one war to the next

All while being sold sex

    Waiting on that one text

Waiting for that one moment

   When you feel the fire in your soul again

 If you had one shot

In one moment

    Could you grab a hold of it?

Would you fly if the world needed you to?

    Could you be a symbol of hope?

Or just more greed on top of greed

    What’s your seed?

  What do you want to grow in your home?

Do you feel your seconds getting sucked out of you?

    Isn’t that your soul bleeding?

Ain't that your ears ringing?

   They don’t drop bombs anymore

They don’t stand in a line and shoot each other

   No

They sell your life back to you

    And when you buy it

You have no time left to do anything with it

    We will sell all of our time

We will drown every thought in our mind

   We will kill boredom

And with it

   Imagination 

   Have I gone crazy?

          Or is this the way the world spins?

CH 1/21/25