Hollis Caravetta (3 Sep 2012)
"A POEM FOR THIS LATE HOUR"


 

DYSTOPIA: September 1st, 2012

 

I HEAR THE DIN OF DISINFORMATION

THE SPIN PLAYED OUT IN DAILY NEWS RELEASED

IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHICH SIDE YOUR ON

AND WHO IS BEST APPEASED.

ORWELLIAN CONSPIRACIES,

THREATS AND THEORIES

AS WE’VE CRIED WOLF FOR FAR TOO LONG-

NO LONGER CONSCIOUS OF THIS ODD AND NUMBING SENSATION,

OUR NATION ONCE DID STAND FOR FREEDOM

NOW STANDS FOR NOTHING MORE THAN LICENSE

AND IS SURPRISED THAT IT IS NO LONGER STRONG.

 

ANARCHY FILLS EVERY CORNER

AS THE EARTH CHANTS TO THIS MOURNER’S  SONG

BLIND TO THE DIRTY WINDOWS OF OUR SOULS

WE’VE BEEN CALLOUS FOR FAR TOO LONG.

WE’VE SEEN JUST A LITTLE TOO MUCH FILTH OF THIS WORLD

AND CALLED IT OUR  “FREE CHOICE”,

NOW HEAR THE SCREAMS FROM WITHIN THE EARTH

FROM THOSE WITH A SILENCED VOICE.

 

THOSE WHO STAND UPON THE SIDELINES,

FILLED WITH WONDERS AND WITH TERRORS

AND RELIGION FILLED WITH SHALLOW REGRETS.

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL,

YOUR HOUR HAS COME TO PAY THE PIPER,

IT IS FAR TOO LATE TO HEDGE YOUR BETS.

 

A FALSE FLAG UNFURLED-

THE HEGELIAN DIALECTIC IF YOU PLEASE..

LADY LIBERTY HAS FALLEN,

SO HARD UPON HER KNEES

HER FLAG DRAGGED THROUGH THIS FILTH AND MIRE

AS SHE GAVE EVERYONE JUST WHAT THEY PLEASED.

 

THE ARROGANT STILL THUNDER PROUDLY

AND MESMERIZE WITH THEIR VOICES

PROMISING FREEDOM AND UNFETTERED LIBERTY

WITH NO CONSEQUENCE FOR MAKING FOOLISH CHOICES.

  

AWAKEN IN THIS STATE OF ATROPHY

CARELESS LIVING AND RUMORS SURELY DID BLIND

THOSE WHO WERE DEAF AND SHORTSIGHTED

IN THE VANITY OF THEIR MINDS.

IT’S NOW TOO LATE TO PONDER

TO CHANGE A WICKED WAY

FOR THE HORSEMEN NOW HAVE RIDDEN

AND WE’RE HEADED FOR JUDGMENT DAY.

 

DYSTOPIAN DREAMS,

NO LONGER THE RUMOR

AS A NATION COMES APART AT THE SEAMS.

THE YOUNG FALL NO MORE TO RISE UP

TO CHASE LOST OR INNOCENT DREAMS.

 

I HEARD THE TRUMP OF WAR UPON THE HORIZON

THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE

IT IS NOT AS IF A LONG TERM PLAN

OR GOOD INSURANCE

IS SOMETHING YOU CAN STILL CHOOSE.

YOU’VE BEEN BROUGHT DOWN THROUGH DISINFORMATION,

AND LISTENED TO PROPHETS SO BLIND

A SPIRIT OF CONFUSION WILL REIGN

AND SO MANY WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.

 

LOOK UP ALL THOSE WHO LOVE JESUS

THERE IS MERCY WITHOUT THE MIXTURE OF GOD'S WRATH

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LISTEN

AND HAVE WALKED UPON HIS PATH.

THE BRIDE NOW MUST BE READY

THE HOUR NOW IS SURE,

HE’S GIVEN US HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS

AND BY BLOOD HAS MADE US PURE.

A OPEN DOOR TO HEAVEN AWAITS US,

I CAN ALMOST HEAR THE SWEET SONG,

“HOLD ON ALL YOU WHO HAVE WAITED,

I AM COMING BEFORE TOO LONG.”

 

Hollis Caravetta