We are Human Beings

I originally wrote this to be read as a spoken-word piece. My other computer, that was capable of making this video, crashed. This poem can't breathe another day without being let out of its cage. Enjoy!


"We Are Human Beings"

We are human beings
With misguided thoughts and infinite feelings
With beautiful thoughts and beautiful minds
Too great to fail even when times are...

beating on us like a bully
Picking us up like a pulley
We still do not understand fully
but we know SOMETHING IS JUST NOT RIGHT

Through the night we sleep with our dreams
of owning a house and much simpler things

and we still find it hard for anyone to pay attention

Stuck in a detention without a crime
you bail yourself out by stealing our dimes
you sell your nickels back for a penty
while you sit on your yacht and vast in your plenty

You cut all the jobs and tell us there's none
you have control of the resources so..
WHY DONT YOU CREATE SOME?

"Work harder" you say
"We do, we pay"
Even for the goods that a ten year old makes

Because before we made laws, we made bridges
and we figured we were fed up with being your bitches
So now we don't make wishes, we make change happen
while you sit behind your fancy desk laughing

We make a movement
you make a dollar;
We make a statement;
you beg and borrow...
from people who you make us believe are our foes.
...you are the pimps, but we are not your hoes.

This is not a game, and no, we will not play
some are still asleep, but they will soon be awake
When the snooze button doesn't work anymore
or when what you feed us leaves us tired and bored

The alarm that you hear will not be turned off.

We've burned off our hopes, our future, our patience
we are done waiting and waiting to see how you make us...

...BECOME...

We haven't won yet but we are getting strong
don't take a nap now cause' this could take us long
We're not pawns in the Devil's game of chess
we don't cheat and make moves and use humans to test...
your unethical theories of mass population,
genocide and greed led to our restoration
and the revelation
That WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS
fighting against the horsemen
and all of their treason

You can buy your politicians
you can buy your media
propoganda is just a method we learned from encyclopedias

You forgot to take our books
Because you bank on our best sellers
and forgot that we read
from what real scholars will tell us

We are the 'wronged' but we are not on our own
as sit in your gated fences alone

We don't attack with weapons,
we strike with our voices
Our words and our mouths and our message makes noise

Boy and girls,
please don't make the same mistake we did
There's not a real war going on-
it's all he said,
and she said.
And now,
100 million are dead.

We the people, have taken enough
We worked and we worked just to pay for this stuff
But was it worth it
The Earth is taking a toll but have we grown further
Animals go extinct but was it just murder

We don't listen to science
but we listen to faith
or did God make us understand what we make?

Fight for your cause but open your eyes
God made us wise while Man made us blind

Can you see past the illusion?
The intrusion into your soul
you know what is right
but continue to go...

Down that Long...Hard... Road.

The Awakening is upon us so be honest with yourself,
and know that soemthing is just not right.

The plight of man is doomed in silence,
violence is not on the agenda in the new age of construcion,
destruction will never help and neither will corruption,
be easy with your wants,
your needs,
and your consumption

The assumption is that we are animals doomed to extinction

But we have human thoughts.

We have human feelings.

Because, we are in fact...

Human Beings.