Poetry

Unoriginal Amalgamations

written by: OurSacredHonor

Streets lined with darkness broken by flickering lights
No sign of anything human is out tonight
Sitting in shadows because the tungsten burns too bright
Entranced in the visions bombarding your sight

I look down the hallway and see you sitting there
Eyes locked forward completely unaware
Of anything happening outside the box at which you stare
Although you don't blink you still don't see so beware

Teacher is television
Preacher is television
Provider is television
Divider is television
Feeding on television
Breeding on television
Needing our television
Not seeing we're completely lacking our own vision

We are not original, we're carbon copies
We are not identical cuz the blueprints were sloppy
But we are all clones of the things we hear and see
The product of environment and a flawed society

The TV shows us everything we'll ever need to know
The TV stops us all from learning how to grow
Every night you're waiting for that same exact show
Its infectious ability to captivate and cause your brain to overflow

Everything inside your head was fed by that box
Everything you thought was dead lives inside that box
Everything you'd ever dread stalks you inside that box
Everything you've ever said you've heard straight from that box

It's never wrong but you're never right
You can hear the songs but you're lacking sight
You're trying to belong and to feel all right
But you never will at least not tonight

Teacher is television
Preacher is television
Provider is television
Divider is television
Feeding on television
Breeding on television
Needing our television
Not seeing we're completely lacking our own vision

You're ideas are all plagiarized you just don't know it
You're obsessed, depressed, and stressed at best but too afraid to show it
You'll grow to know to slow the flow so you don't go blow it
You know I know the answer but on you I won't bestow it

We're force-fed the beliefs of previous generations
Taught to hate, and taught to kill, taught to die all for our nation
They tell us what to think, how to act, control our every sensation
You're blind and naive if you can't see we're not new but rather
unoriginal amalgamations

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