Eyes shut and ears that choose not to hear a word 
and a mind that plays ignorant.
Actions that have no impact 
and a job that pays for the luxuries of others.

We are free; free to be whatever they want us to be. 

A world filled with kindness, 
kindness that leaves many, homeless and starving.
Kindness that gets lost at the turn of a page.

Medicines that hide symptoms, 
but do not cure 
and side effects that cause the very symptoms they hide.
Banks that lend you nothing, 
yet want the world in return 
all on the basis of an interest that never even existed.

Voting for leaders 
that do not lead us, 
instead they force upon us war, 
war that we never chose to fight.

Education teaches us nothing more 
than memorising the words of others. 
Equality that equally points out the differences 
of those most different to us, 
and yet we claim we are free? 

We are free; free to be whatever they want us to be. 

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