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Illuminated

Turn the lights on!
Change the channel cuz the fight's on
You know you can't watch all the stars dance without the right song
So turn the music up!
Let it beat on your soul til it uses up
The foolish acoustics, your ears lose enough
Wait, you don't need three squares for a cubic cup

Just do the math
And the read the numbers
They must think they're too clever by two halves
You don't encumber
Cuz you know that
Bright 5th graders can be smarter than a plutocrat

So light it up once
Roll it down twice
Puff puff pass, three steps and the roll the dice
You see it in their eyes
Covered by suits and ties
A darkness that hides all illuminated lies

That wriggle through their teeth
And burrow in the streets
Where walls walk over people bleating like they're sheep
And corporations speak
Because they're people, too
Even though they don't live like normal people do

So hey you, yes you!
They say you have to possess debt
The corporate chain gang needs you
So you can't rest yet
The media will try to hold you in check
Like a chess set
Of TVs that keep asking
If you've found success yet
To borrow more and hit the town
Shining, in some fresh steps

Or give news that gives blues
Until you can't suppress stress
On your block and round the world
‘They're' making their press threats
To your life, but with air strikes
You'll be sure to sleep at night
Because freedom rings true and it reigns in excess
On the backs of camos that melt in the sun
So when they cross Cs
They cannot express
On whose account should they throw the vet net?
Or which conflict they will have to get next
They tell you life is in shambles and forever a gamble
But they tend to leave out that it is your best bet

Extreme measures
Cannot be the norm because there's always a storm
And we can't steady the weather
So let's get it together
Team Voltron, yes!
With the keys to this game
There is no contest
Fortify your mind and it won't know conquest
Or you'll be a man akin
To every plastic woman with a bolt-on chest

// Turn the lights on with a flicker of curiosity, and questioning authority highlights their hypocrisy, it may not make you enlightened with a lightening velocity, but at least you know it'll increase your luminosity—Illuminated //

poem by P.R. Prosper
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