Off Balanced

It's hard living in a world where no one cares
While your smothered and shallowed by despair  
Sitting here wondering why I was born into this place
Not wanting to be part of this human race
Where money is the great and powerful Oz
It doesn't matter what's the cause  
I look and see their hearts have grown cold and calloused  
Everything is so off balanced
There is no more unconditional love
No help from up above  
We have been abandoned  
The trumpets have sounded
Humanity has been stripped of it's compassion  
Empathy is in short ration  
Gone are the ways of old
To these values we no longer hold
Now it's I'll do for you if you can do for me
That's not the way it's supposed to be  
But everyone's eyes have been closed  
Their souls have become thorny and cold
We are no longer judged on our thoughts and actions  
But by how much money we have for the coming attractions  
For if we don't have enough to pay
We become part of the play
We are condemned to be the whore  
Then feed into the machines of war
 
©Pauline Russell