One Dying Nation Under God

Last school year 2 students died

I never even knew them

The only time I saw their faces were the school portraits on the big projector screen

Why did this happen

What did we do as a society

As a people

As a world

To push them this far off the edge

I never spoke to them but sometimes deep down I feel like it was my fault

That I didn’t do anything to stop it

That no one could do anything to stop it

The one way to cure one’s depression is to “cure” the surroundings

I know myself how difficult that is

I can put on an empathetic look and try to make things better

But it only does so much

Where will we be if we let this continue on

Turning a blind eye to the millions of millennials who end their life because they couldn’t take it anymore

One depressed nation under God

Popping pills to make the day go by

One dying nation under God because our efforts only did so much

That we were powerless to the billionaires corrupted by greed

Who think they can suck everything out of us

Until we are a sack of bones decomposing in a coffin 6 feet underground

To leave us hooked to our devices, awaiting anything that may happen next

Because information is survival even though 70 percent of it is phony

One dying nation under God

With liberty and justice for all

Bullshit

If there was liberty and justice for all

We wouldn’t be dropping like flies

Flies that can easily swatted

Our guts will leave a smear, but that’s easy to clean

Cleaned up like we never even existed to them

Like some pastel band-aid that covers everything up

Makes us forget and ignore

One dying nation under God

A nation were not enough people in power care

Those darn millenial’s with their social media and big headphones

That don’t listen you

That want to block out the pain

Look at us

What will happen if we let this injustice continue

More death, more suffering

We need to stop

Everyone

We need to unite as a society to stop this suicide epidemic

Because in the end

Who will be left to do so?