this new world

Everyone is a little bit fragile
everyone is feeling
blank today
I'm not sure
what you want from me
but I know it's just a matter of time
before you take it away
I see you standing there
capable, strong
and so unwilling to give
Do you see me here
struggling under
this mountain of hate?
What good I have
is so small
but you're fixed on it
you want to take it away
The snow is melting now
Poking up
through the disaster of winter
is new growth, fresh promise
But you, brother,
are busy filling your tanks
with agent orange
Do you wish for everyone to bleed
as you walk above the fray?

Everyone is a little bit fragile
everyone is feeling
broken and stunned
I pray for healing
I ask for hope
but you offer condescension
and the party line
Nothing is keeping me here
but this mountain of hate
No one is calling me out
because they know I can't play
In this new world
brothers are adversaries
good friends are foes
and we've all become oblivious
to the hate machines
bearing down on us
I pray we have time
I hope for peace
but the faces in the hate machines
look so fucking smug.