Nocturnal Vision
we set this world up by what we think we see
and live in fear of what we think may happen
wars are started as information from a single wiretap
with context taken from another government launched satellite
"I'm going to the grocery store."
translates as
"Let's start a holy war."
people need jobs and the government creates new openings
with every freshly tapped phone line.
a system of checks was created in the name of blind justice
but she has been given night-vision goggles
the ability to see in the dark
an opportunity our "enemy combatants" can't afford
the rich are at war with the poor
when the poor are just trying to survive yesterday
a single mother with two kids living in a housing project
has no time to see that poverty is a white man's weapon
aimed straight at the soul of the two kids she's just trying to feed.
December 19, 2005