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Get up, Stand up

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Stand up for your rights, don't settle without a fight, don't let imposed fright, extinguish your inner light.

We are all leaders, settling for being breeders, nameless bleeders, average-achievers, pleaders––
without a voice, majorities without a choice, no reason to rejoice, saving for a rolls royce.

Artificial reality, living with limited mentality, residing in a conformist society, promoting ignorant proprietary.

We're confused and needy, afraid and greedy, uneducated and signing treaty's, degenerate and seedy.

Everything has a price, friendship and love doesn't suffice, the government is Pied Piper, and we're all the mice.

It isn't hard to see, people follow the fee, when you ask someone for help, they're thinking "what's in it for me".

We know TV show's, and clothes, celebrities and hoes, we know who's the popular friend today, and tomorrow the bullied foe.

Even the news can't be trusted, it's all false and readjusted, disrupted and corrupted, stunted and reconstructed––
all to make you scared, not one of us is spared, people who once cared, become wholeheartedly impaired, unaware and un-prepared, insecure and compared.

Money is higher then us, it's all we discuss, a common-needed plus, created to cause muss and fuss, thus completely superfluous.

Beauty is defined, actually, it's designed–– to keep us confined, aligned and blind––
in the 9-5 grind, so we keep the contracts signed, the protestors undermined, corporate-ladders climbed, killing any possibility of the improvement of mankind.


© Rocio Belinda Mendez 2013
© 2013 - 2024 rociobelindamendez
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MadHat11D6's avatar
Nice rhyming. I like it. The flow is perfectly concise. This is the type of thing that serves as an example to other works out that. My main critique is that you might want to consider changing this to a line and stanza format. This visual space might lead to a great emphasis on each line, raising the impact of the piece as the attention is placed on each line as much as each stanza and the entire piece as a whole. But it could also lower the urban feel. Give it a look ,tell me what you think about it. My critiques are usually much longer, but this is a very strong piece. Well done. :clap:

[Critique on behalf of PowerfulWriting]