Burnin' in HeLL. A.

Chronic fatigue syndrome…
The heart beats on, but the spirit is gone.
Environment is toxic and chemical…
Lose your mind after losing any livable space for your physical.

Too many Americans today are solely concerned with gettin' it…
Few seem to be intelligently givin' a sh-t…
About one another…
Little respect for their sisters and brothers…
Nor Earth Mother.

Only material warfare by way of rap poetry…
Politics…
Corporate business…
Or gang activity…
Illegal or evil?
By any money making means necessary…
Have Americans left civilization behind in order to be free?
Or are we just on our way to an even greater slavery?

And if Hollywood actors are the gods we choose…
Then maybe our society will be doomed to lose.

We can cover our eyes, so we don't see…
And we can plug our ears to avoid the noise…
But lost Kids these days are still going to want to be like Snoop Dogg or the Beastie Boys.
(Before they became men.)

Who out there is living through giving?
And who out there is left with any humility?
Or human decency?
Our minds seem to be getting smaller...
While our over-inflated ego's walk forever taller.

So, as a whole, we all go to hell…
Our poisoned mental and physical environment is now a jail cell.

People will die...
And a new era will come...
If we are "intelligent life" then why do we act so dumb?

No self-respect…
No intellect…
No decency…
No humanity…
Don’t you know that next comes collective tragedy?

I hope that my f--kin' angry mind sprays have not left you in a daze…
But I just want more people waking up from lesser ways…
Because lesser ways left behind get us past judgment days.

Perhaps the ignorant will soon become obsolete…
And those dying of cancer will only be those who still eat mad cow diseased red meat.

We need to evolve so that nature will choose to keep us...
Or perhaps She will treat us like a disease...
Because we are the one's killing the oceans, animals, plants, and trees.

But not to worry...
Because the end is near...
The end of our ignorance...
Or the end of our existence.

One way or another...
It'll be the end.
And after every ending there is always a new beginning.
Amen.

To see the light of that better day...
Choose a more intelligent and simple way...
Reclaim your consciousness and energy...
And practice the ways of Zen.

These words come from a friend...
Speaking to you through the pages of this poetry forever now...
And even after the end!