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Why want more
When you have more
Than you could ever even use
How deep is that hole
In your own freaking mind
When you assert all that you’re due
How dare you compare
Your plight to those lesser
In any possible frame
How hard is your life
With your golden spoon
Always sailing by on your name
How hard is your heart
When you look at the needy
And think of all you can gain
By twisting their minds
Telling nothing but lies
Then talking of them with disdain
You’re nothing but shit
On your golden throne sitting
Inviting only despair
For those who upheld you
Believed all your falsehood
Wishing only to dare
For a sound place to live
On morals felt deeply
Which you promised with all due haste
Yet instead help your buddies
Who want for nothing
But demand far more than a taste
Of power wrongly stolen
From the people you fleeced
With all of your promises and lies
A tyrant, what you are
A bully, nothing more
Your plots have all been devised
Bring evil into our house
Tear down democracy
Everything we’ve built with our tools
Clearer now who you are
A snake in the garden
But snakes were never so cruel
Author’s Note:
This one’s for the power-hungry liars in gold-trimmed suits, who weaponize hope and betray the people they pretend to serve. I didn’t write this to be polite… I wrote it to tell the truth.
— Liora
voice through fire | www.liorawrites.com
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