The Collapse

from Trading Past For Pathways by Red Helen

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I stood and watched as the world I knew fell into this collapse.
I've witnessed the results of this cataclysmic war on life.
We've ignored all the warning signs, covering our eyes.
We set our world on fire and watched it burn.
Red lights screaming critical mass,
We stood and watched this world fall.

We are poison unto ourselves.
A vicious venom, a cancerous cell.
Divided by our difference we conquer ourselves.

There is strength in our diversity.
There is power in our dissimilarity.
United we could become more than we are.

We hate each other for our differences.
We despise one another for our similarities,
But we’re so much more alike than we care to admit.

I will be disassociated from everything that I once knew to be true.
I will not limit myself to a misguided cultural view.

We've held a finger on the pulse,
While bleeding our world dry.
We've stood and watched, committing mass suicide.

Wonders & Miracles my children will never see.
The worst part of it all is the blame rests on me.

This global holocaust,
This global genocide,
What is your new alibi?
New justification you have to hide behind?

This global holocaust,
This global genocide.
When will we open our eyes?
We are the catalysts of our own demise.

The cracks in the floor will swallow you whole.
You claim you want peace, but you’re hoping for war.

I see a blaze on the mountains, an acidic uninhabitable sea.
The wolves are out for blood, atonement for our idiocy.

There is strength in our diversity.
There is power in our dissimilarity.
United, we could become more than we are.

We are poison unto ourselves.

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from Trading Past For Pathways, released February 17, 2017

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