Thomas Paine

What does it all matter

Religion and science

The future is now

And the gods are behind us

Reminding us where we let

Faith conquer fact

And believed only some higher powers impact the track record of humans in union

Just Trumans in ruins

Betrayed constitutions

And freedom illusions

In each revolution

Until at the grass roots we grow a new movement

To rise up and wake up the slumbering giants

The common man’s struggle to topple the tyrants, we’ve done it with violence, but never with silence

But in reconciling the ghosts of our past

With the differences in all the shadows they caste

We can iconoclast the plastic misconception

That all of our saviors need win an election

To bail out oppression with jail cell detention

And hush any mention of selfless expression

When bullets are ballots and money is mallets, then liberty’s truth is injustice for all

We can fall to our knees and praise be to a wall

Or measure the magic in this crystal ball

If we keep seeing fortunes and fame

On the brain, then the lions we tame will in vain take the blame

And all of us lose the food chain waiting game

As I share my Thomas Paine going insane