Common Sense Being Sold to the Highest Bidder
In pondering how labelling has permeated nearly everything
I chanced upon a thought, one that I clearly couldn’t boycott
Thinking about the pretence to misalign or redefine normalcy
The reducing of common sense to something near ambiguity
Correctness nothing short of an infectious imperfectness
Exemplified attempts to misguide word meanings worldwide
Instance one shows how they’ve spun a false home run
Identification of a thought revelation for modern damnation
Called a hate crime by the bureaucracy and aristocracy
But it doesn’t pass muster, dictated by a lackluster instructor
Hate is something from the mind, so how can thinking be a crime?
Are the thought police making the arrests, as this definition suggests?
Instance two revolves around gender, and the pretenders and benders
Imagine if you called yourself a dog, or hog, or even almighty god
Forced change to known foundations, just to appease imagination
Changing clothes, emerging from the shadows, then impose
Demanding the worlds validation, without proven creation
Boys and girls will stay the same, regardless of surgery or changed names
Borders open, people flowing, no one cares about their comings and goings
The public coffers are out of coppers, and our credit has had it
We can’t pay for everyone, fixes always get undone, scary outcomes
Prison populations overflowing, and uncertainty about where were going
Citizenship valued less, while illegality is cheered by members of the press
Slapping average folks hard in the face, taking their place, and their space
Instance four, and then no more, as enough is enough to show the score
A religion of peace or one of hate, depending on which scale you rate
Good folk surrender without a fight, rather spend their lives in fright
Black clad women and angry men, infiltration and decay from within
Explosions are omens, honor killing an accepted thing, are you kidding
Peace is found in that which is right, morally, patiently, and polite
No more examples, for the obvious is seen, no need to read in between
Common sense surrendered or sold, people willingly controlled
Silver coins and selling ones soul, trampled marigolds on the threshold
Soon another Reich might rise, holocaust troopers, planes in skies
People instead choose to ignore, not keeping score, not guarding the door
Governments playing games, always watching, lists of names
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There are a few other invented terms and labels I could mention, but best not to as it does not matter. You have some clever phrasing here, Ralph. It seems like every day there is something to “misguide word meanings.” Great work, as always.
You’re right Ralph, where has common sense gone, the world is in such disarray, how can it ever be balanced out? Emotively penned and clever use of words in this statement of human ineptitude and plight.
I’m not sure where this one even came from – it just appeared on the page but it’s growing on me…..
Ralph,
I know that I definitely could use a second, or third helping of Common Sense. I think I was somewhere else when this trait was being handed out to people because I barely have any.
Your poetry is so artistic, and well-written! I am looking for one of your dark poems to put on my Pinterest Board, along with the other writers I already have there. This is all such high quality poetry!