The Elephant in the Room

Is it possible to sleepwalk if you are wide awake?
To shuffle past our problems while insisting they are fake?
What’s this collective apathy that’s spreading like a plague,
Spurning facts for fictions and making specifics vague?


The media dilutes the truth and spins the other way,
Making a fuss, dividing us, while on our fears they prey.
There’s clickbait that you can’t believe, ten uses for a lemon!
But please ignore atrocities within the country Yemen.


Why are we always outraged over things which make no sense?
Red starbucks cups and Nike ads? How can we be so dense?
Please don’t follow brainless trends, I know it’s become chronic.
Social networks’ circle jerks are tragically ironic.


This culture is destroying us, it isn’t hard to see.
We’re looking out for number one, it’s always me, me, me.
So focused on the short term that we fail to look ahead,
To see the gloom and doom which looms, filling hearts with dread.


“What can we do?” We ask ourselves, “I’m just one person, dude.”
“Besides I’m comfy on my couch, everyone else is screwed.”
History would be different, if our forefathers sighed,
And paid the tax on British tea, letting the whole thing slide.


Get off your couch and make some change! Don’t just like or share.
People will scroll past your attempts without a second’s care.
Stop listening to screaming screens and switch off, think a while.
Without being told what you should feel, at last you’re free to smile.

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