Remaining In Place
Whole Picture Poetry
In order to oppress
By kneeling on necks
You yourself must remain
In the same position
In order to hold
Your target population
In place
Instead of viewing
Such actions
As the consequences
Of mental illness
The consequence
Of weaponizing hate
The impact of the abuse
Is viewed
As personal responsibility
Of the victims
Who end up labeled
Mentally ill
For the positions
We are placed in
And the circumstances
We are forced to live
Anything positive
We manage to create
Even under such
Harsh conditions
Are coopted
Copy and pasted
Appropriated
By the very population
That engineers the system
Keeping us enslaved
Using propaganda
The military industrial complex
Social engineering
Advanced technology
Tax funded programs
Classified intelligence
Paramilitary operations
And Ai to keep us caged
While society is brainwashed
Into thinking
That we
Bring about our own conditions
With the decisions we make
Because we are “inferior”
Because we are born this way
Because God “punished”
And can’t figure out how to
Over come it
INSANE!
The consequence to our community?
Mass torture
Mass trauma
Mass suffering
Mass death
Generation after generation
Century after century
But the fact that we are dying
From ethnic cleansing
Is still called hashtag fake
INSANE!
The components of this system
Being hailed as “superior”
And rewarded for the entitlement
It brings
To those who target us
Maintaining this
Is top priority
Keeping us oppressed
The number way
To gain accolades
Wealth
Protection
INSANE!
DISGUSTING!
SHAME!
Speaking about this
Gets me labeled “terrorist”
While actual terrorists
Continue to walk free
Dismantling the hard won improvements
To democracy
SHAME!
INSANE!
DISGUSTING!
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