Sirens

Sirens scream in the

Distance

Out there

In the cold darkness

Speeding through the night

With

The almost dead!

Nowadays

Some folks

Scream just as loud

From their favorite 

Internet soap box

Repeating all

They hear

They see

As actual absolute fact!

In time

Their words will become

Just as dead

And

Lifeless

As the ones

Lying on a gurney

Riding in the death wagon

With year round

Christmas Lights

Flashing on top

Click and share

Click and share

Meaningless Memes may

Just be

Boring the world to death!

Misinformation passed off

As truth

Zombies

Fed by the machine

By

Advertisements

Corporate feeding tubes

Slid with love

Into our self-conscious

Then before

You know it

Their words

Their thoughts

Are being spoken

Into a microphone

In your hands!

But remember

The internet is a platform

That is easy

To stumble and fall from

It’s a tool for information

For communication

The problem is

It becomes flooded

With so much deception

It’s hard to decipher

What is what?

So be careful

What you read

What you repeat

Ask yourself

If I am doing the shouting

What war am I fighting for?

Because

If you’re only fighting

Within the safety

Of

Your castle walls

Shouting to your family

Your friends

And

Your post

Show up only

On their walls

It’s not much of a battle!

Yes

Stand for something

But

Make sure you’re standing

In the storm you’re wanting

To change

Not

Looking out the window

At it!

Dive into the sea

Of

What you feel is wrong

With the world!

Risk something!

It would be better

To

Drown fighting the undertone

Of

Something you hate

Than to stand on the shoreline

Comfortably skipping stones

Across its surface

From my book, When The Cedars Shade Your Grave