As you move through your day, do you see how much complacency gets in the way?
How often the “whatever” and “its all good” means in your comfort zone you stay?
How many times does an opportunity for you to change it up come along?
And you see this new verse, but don’t add it to your song.
You feel contented on the road you are walking.
And doing any different is just pipe dreams, empty talking.
It’s perfectly Ok to stay in your cocoon,
It means nothing horrible, no impending doom.
But do you ever question. Wonder what you are missing?
Or does life throw up opportunity, repeatedly, insisting?
That there is more to existence than your daily stroll,
And the potential being missed is yours, as you just “roll”.
There were times when every aspect of life was hard work.
Those who were near and dear were the last ones you hurt.
Now that life’s necessities are easily had.
We treat so much with indifference; simple joys do not even make us glad.
We play the observer more and more; life is a spectacle to ‘boo’ or applaud.
Disconnected from our power to change or alter, hands off viewing the common accord.
And when we all breathe in this collective, passive alliance.
Misdeeds, injustices and apathy become rampant with lack of defiance.
And slowly any specific type of life floats away.
The values and aspects we hold dear start to decay.
Decisions and choices are taken out of our hands,
With no definitive options we no longer know where we stand.
We become a melting pot for what others think we should be.
We have no opinions, our actions no longer taken deterministically.
We see ourselves as helpless as a grain in Time’s great sands.
And when we see injustice, the effort to correct it, is too big a demand.
So, when you are complacent, thinking there is nothing you need do.
When you are apathetic and think change is not for you
All you are really doing is moving oppression right along.
For sublimation of the masses is the dictator’s favourite song.
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