Our Mental Pandemic
Facing our Truth
Our Mental Pandemic is a piece about a struggle and indecision that can come when you’re making an important choice for yourself. My piece not only talks about the difficulty of making a choice under peer pressure, but also alienation and discrimination that has gone on in our society for the last two years. It’s been a hard time for many from loosing loved ones, jobs, social life and succumbing to mental illness. My goal with this project is to rip the band-aid off and look at the wound that has been festering, because once we admit to the pain, we can start to heal. We all have a choice and I have made mine, to face my truth.
The Poem
Walk your path
Follow what you like
Wrong or right
Black or white
Don’t hesitate
Make a mess of it
Deciding that you’re
Having none of it
Walk straight
No direction
Decide your music
The greys the new, news now
What’s with all these hues
That have issue, with you
What will you choose?
The people, arguing like
Red or blue
Pointing, Pointing fingers at you
That makes two, two million
Some screaming freedom
Because whispering please
Are no longer being appeased
No confronting
Only conforming
If you’re different
Then there no place
No place for you, or us
I say that you disgust
Just trust, while the world
Around you turn to dust
And there’s nothing left
But rust, a red wave
That must
Have made, us mad
Because in the end
The hatters were, right
Everyone had
A hidden
Agenda in plain sight
On the walls
Of what we once called
Civilization, cause hell's
The next train stations
Limited express
The night come out,
But the morning is still depressed
Down about the lies
And stressed
Loosing jobs, closing schools
There must be a limit
End up being the fools
Separated, unappreciated
Cause they know
You’re unvaccinated
One, Two, and more,
Being anticipated
How much more
Will we be alienated
Sign this up for the passport
You’ll be rewarded
Privileged and escorted
To an empty resort
Because the report
Said Covid took the others
Heck if that matter
Sign all the papers
Spit on the others
Those you don’t
Are a danger to one another
Taken the safety measures
Don’t even bother
Because you’re a danger
To society
But even with all this anxiety
You, yes you
Have the power of equality
You make decisions for your sanity
Don’t take it too far
Leave the rest of us
Our part
Cause it was always
Our choice for the start.