The System
The Capitalist System that controls and manipulates my life
is a vast economic web that controls every life in America
it’s designed to keep the population in chains of need
and forces everyone to comply with strategies of greed.
The clothes we wear complies with the slave labor of the people
who toil 24/7 to make them; the food I eat complies with the
degradation and suffering of migrant workers who work 24/7
to grow and harvest the food we eat.
We comply with the abject misery of people who are
carefully taught they are racially and socially beneath us
we comply with corporate consumerism even knowing that its
harmful effects poison the environment.
And we comply with the system’s self-serving economic structure
that distributes our nation’s wealth only upward into the hands
of privilege and power. We are forced to comply with a system
that ignores the suffering of the poor in favor of the rich.
The cyclical nature of the capitalist system is self-sustaining
and self-rewarding. Its internal politics is hierarchical and elitist
and those of us who are trapped in its ever-expanding web of deceits
can discover no way out - and are forced to submit forever.
To live a simple and non-toxic life is no longer possible
any concerns expressed for the poor and the middleclass
are dismissed as simplistic by an economic system that
is false, not simple, and very toxic.