Modern Day Inventions

 

The myth of the common man

Pervades the history of society

An illusion lost in the shuffle of progress

Innovation trapping the modern creature

In bars of its own will

Efficiency, jailer

Competition, warden

As we push ourselves to the limitations

Of our own created existences

Finding boundaries in the vastness

Of space and time

Wandering through the winding paths

Of truth and dignity

Integrity and Character

All leading us to our own true selves

Yet only giving us distorted visions

Of who we are—

 

The myth of freedom

Pervades our daily lives

The idea that we are separate

From all around us

That the individual supersedes nature

In some way, shape, or form

We have taken nurturing

Away from Mother Nature

We have stolen her children

To make them gods in their own minds

Building liberty upon the falsehood

Of equality

In a world where no one sees the same blue

The same red

The same yellow

Where pigment never truly mixes to black

And white is over-washed cotton

Worn—

 

The myth of our own realities

Pervades our very perception

Altered by the desires of who we are

Changed by the needs of the moment

The improvisation of daily life

As we strive for enlightenment

In a world where we shield our eyes from the sun

Because it causes cancer

Because too much is not healthy

Because we need an enemy in our lives

To feel like the good guys

In a story where the villain

Only exists because we need heroes

 

The myth still lives

We tell it in our actions

As we weave our own stories

Into a crafty Mexican blanket

Sold for $5.99 in a Hess station

On your way out of town

Traveling on the road to your destiny

That simply leads off into nowhere.