Johan Bendel

Poem Two. MP3

Day 338

A one year sentence

In my own home

Yearning for a taste of the old

Back when a day could be bad or great

Not just decent to ok

New norms have emerged

The world is in chaos but time feels slowed down

I hear only silence, the world is a ghost town

Days no longer have meaning

They’re nothing but time

It feels almost fictional

That not wearing masks is a crime

Not saying it's bad, but is it not strange?

How life as we know it can so quickly change?

New norms have emerged

Like hiding inside

I live in my room

Is this being alive?

But when the abnormal resumes

When we’ll see nature bloom

And we’ll just take it back

Because mankind consumes.

Rewritten

Uncle Sam wants you to join the army

To Force you to fight for freedom

To kill to restore peace

You’ve been locked in a cage

Held in captivity

And forced to fight

Don’t sign their contract of suicide

Written by the people up top

Both sides claim that god is on their side

But perhaps god is not the one controlling them.

A horrid experience rewritten to be glorified

The Deaths of millions used for profit

Uncle Sam expects you to die

And they'll only repay you with a plate with your name

But if you lost you won't be remembered at all