From the Outside Looking In
From the outside looking in:
I see a world full of misunderstandings
Those that are afraid to see as they are blinded by humanity
With words bestowed to us as liberators of the oppressed
We use those very words to brainwash all the rest
I see a zoo of starving animals that take food from the weak
The weak then carry on to find food to last a week
A week’s worth of hope is enough to last the greedy starving a day
But now the starving are hungry so guess who has to pay?
I see a whole lot of sympathy but not enough empathy
Who cares, empathy won’t feed me -what I need is money
It’s funny how green construction paper could make some so bitter
You know it's messed up when the baby becomes the sitter
It’s funny when our fathers are founded in the decorated grave of a plantation
It’s real funny when Toby was founded at the border of Freedom Station
It’s funny that a flowing river could stop us in our tracks
The very railroad that moved us would only bring us back
It’s funny that people escape to the country we call oppressed
It’s even funnier that some call a pair of shorts fully dressed
It's comical when the top 1 percent don't have a dollar to spare
Yet the poor ones are spending more money everywhere
It's amusing when our backs get so used to all the gashing
It's amusing when adults find color so everlasting
It's even better that throughout this, I wasn't ever laughing.