Poems

I...
I AM...
Waking...
taken
made
educated
conformed
controlled
misderected
infected
hated
unaffected
srutanized
desensitized
dehumannized
opressed
obsessed
deprest
Dying
I...I AM...I AM they...I AM THEM...I AM DEAD...
I.....Must leave never return

I!
I AM!
AWAKE!
ALIVE!
BREATHING!
FEELING!
HAPPY!
LAUGHING!
DANCING!
CARING!
LOVING!
CRYING!
PASSIONATE!
AFFECTIONATE!
PARADOXAL!
NATURAL!
SUPERNATURAL!
SPIRITUAL!
LIVING!!!!

I!!!I AM!!!I AM I!!! I AM ME!!! I AM FREE!!!
FROM NOW TILL ETERNITY

Item: 2 of 4

FROM THE CRADDLE TO THE GRAVE


Well they took you from your mothers womb and put you in a school
told you how to run your life by following the rules
told you not to pick your nose or disrespect the queen
scrub your teeth three times a day keep mind and body clean

save up all your pocket money nothing is for free
and you'd better trust your parents cuz there's no-one else you see
and when they send you off each day remenber what your told
'you may think you don't need teaching but you'll need it when your old'

And if your too intelligent they'll cut you down to size
they'll praise you 'til your happy and they'll fill you full of lies
cuz intelligence is threatening and genius is sin
if you could ever see through them they know they'd never win

So they channel your ability into the right direction
if your good enough and rich enough you can be a politician
on the other hand if your're too thick they'll tell you that your lazy
they'll put you down and wind you up until it drives you CRAZY

they'll say you ought to learn a trade to help you in your life
success is written in three parts a job a house a wife
they'll say thar school prepares you for the awesome world outside
well it certainly give you bigotry and a patriotic pride

Rascism sexism teacher to class
from school to work remains the same are you white and middle class?

you'll learn that badmen dress in black and goodmen dress in white
and the pamphlets in the playground say that's right
and that girls were made for housework boys were made to fight
and the naughty pictures on page3 make everything alright

and so from school to the outside world these morales you will take
and unless you can reject them you'll have your mind at stake

They'll give you a right when you get to 18,too
the right to vote for someone else who says he cares for you
but the only thing he cares about is getting to the top
by conning with empty words that promise you alot
but the end result is slavery to false set of ideals
you'll be tempted to believe them cuz they'll seem so very real
the slavery of atttitudes that make you keep in line
subconsciously devoted to the morals of our time

and when you end up on the dole which you very likely will
they'll offer you a brand new trade learning how to kill

why don't you join the army ? be a man and not a fool
there's someone else to think for you just like there was at school

they'll promise you absolution from the murders you'll commit
in the name of god and country they can get away with it
they fill you full of orders and promise you rewards
like busting up your family by sending you abroad

A holiday in Germany or Iceland or Hong Kong
making money being useless well it seems it can't go wrong
but then it's off to northern Ireland where you'll practice what they preached
you'll shoot to keep yourself alive and you'll kill to keep the peace
and then it wont be so much fun when you hear the wounded crying
cuz before they couldn't speak English,and you didn't know what they were saying
But when the children call youBASTARD! it will make you think again
when you cannot tell the difference between ANIMALS and MEN


animals dont wear uniform but they kill as much as you
but the army kills for money and animals kill for food
it's the basest degradation in the name of what is right
become something you never were and regret it till you die

Cuz your father will tell you sonny you must do as you are told
and you'll say the same thing to your kids when your 32 years old
and unless you can react against the brainwash from the start
your goverment will rule your mind and your mind will rule your HEARTH
you'll conform to every social law and be system's slave
from BIRTH TO SCHOOL TO WORK TO DEATH FROM THE CRADDLE TO THE GRAVE.

I Will Not Bow Down America I Will Not Bow Down ,to your Goverment to your Religion I Will Not Bow Down America to your Materialism to Your international Corporations yo your Religious Shrines your Stock Markets your Shopping Malls I Will Not Bow Down America to your coal mines to your Power Plants I Will Not go crawling down the deep shafts at midnight I will Not Bow Down to your Invasion of Privacy to your moral absolutes your religious political might I Will Not Bow Down to your assassins the CIA the FBI the corporate state your Killing Murdering Machines I Will Not Bow Down to your bureaucracies to your schools to your attempt to make me the model citizen of your state of your church I Will Not Bow Down America to your HIStory of lies to your Secrets in the best interest of to Protect the People America I Pledge Allegiance to the Ones who were here before you and will be here after you are Gone America to the Woman I Love and to Our Children I Pledge Allegiance to my Friends my Guides and Angels both seen and unseen America I Plede Allegiance to Poetry to music to art and to the literary renaissance to Global literary community I pledge Allegiance to the beat of the outsider I Pledge Allegiance to meditation to stillness to magic to bbeautiful mysticism to ecstacy to ah and AHA to the Big Bang Epiphany to altered states of consciousness I Pledge Allegiance to seeing into the occult the unknown to seeing into everyday into the ordinary and being amazed I Pledge Allegiance to the Sacred and the Profane to gnostical turpitude I Pledge Allegiance to my Physical body and the Knowledge that I am More than my Physical body I Pledge Allegiance to seeing more than the physical World and to those of Higher Frequency vibration and consciousness I Pledge Allegiance to passing through
the Sacred Fire to entering the upper chamber of the Golden Pyramid to levitating over the open sarcophagus to out of the body experience I Pledge Allegiance to Fractal Geometrie the geometrie of clouds and coastlines to 2times2 equaling 5 I Pledge Allegiance to failure to failing as no other dare fail I Pledge Allegiance to taking Risk to Holy daring to nam myoho renge kyo to accepting responsibility for my own actions I Pledge Allegiance to NOT achieving the American dream of success America I Pledge Allegiance to trees to green grass to brown earth to wildflowers of every color to Wilderness to turquoise Native American skies to rivers to lakes and to seas to healing the earth I Pledge Allegiance to Holy Spirit to the word and to silence I Pledge Allegiance to Dreams I Pledge Allegiance to Birth to the Journey and to Death I Pledge Allegiance to candor to sincerity to laughter and to Irony I Pledge Allegiance to Passion and Compassion to Empathy and to helping those in need I Pledge Allegiance to the Ressurection of the HEART
NO AMERICA I WILL NOT BOW DOWN


written by Ron Whitehead