POETRY - SOCIOLOGICAL


Consumer Slavery

Latter day post-industrial, modernistic consumer society,
With it’s frenetic activity and not a second to lose mentality.
Where once hooked in and established, as a successful player,
There are few chances or options and little chance of change.
For to pay for all of the glittering trappings, to sustain this image of success,
Is to be fully committed to the program, with little scope for independence and free enterprise.
And so the golden allure, must be false and hollow, desire thought forms
That enslave one to the wheel, of toil and hardship.
In pursuit of an illusionary dream, in someone else’s reality,
A calculated distraction to divert gaze, from the slavery wheel,
That we chain ourselves to, in order to satisfy our desires.
Instigated by our Masters, that keep us willingly treading, in ignoranceOf our true potentiality and destiny, clouded in ignorance and egocentricity