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THE POETRY OF MARK ELSIS
Part 1 (this page)
BE YOUR BEST RESONATE LOVE MARK ELSIS
Saviour Of Humanity
A paradise for humans to run Live forever or turn to dust Whatever happens it's what we've done And now that we have reached The time to choose our destiny Global unity I do preach Love the saviour of humanity
The Rivets Are Popping
Are leaving the web of life Man's extinction is on the way Cutting our own throats with a knife Like Paul Ehrlich says The rivets are popping We're like a plane in the air And each time a species goes extinct Another rivet pops from the metal One by one they pop till The plane falls apart and crashes
Beauty
At an alarming rate Man is in a hurry He just can't wait The Sea Empress Let go of her oil there mate In a marine sanctuary Now isn't that great Double hulled tankers Once more too late Now the coast of Wales Is in a slippery state What we want we get That is our fate Beauty is vanishing At an alarming rate
It's Over
It's all over The camels back Has broke Reckless man Foolish man Irreversible damage I found all around On this day to me It finally spoke
Please
That we must stop Our destroying ways Or we will go extinct Please understand Let go of and drop These are our last days To transform too awareness Or we will go extinct Please understand Please
The Last Song
For a mate But there are no mates To be found The last of his kind But he keeps on singing I wonder if he knows How beautiful he sings The last song
Trivial Matters
Trivial matters While our Earth is being decimated In our lifetime In front of our eyes When there is nothing more important For humanity to do Then to face this atrocity And deal with it with all our energies But no not us We'd rather be Wasting our time with distracting Trivial matters
Homo Sapiens
Slaughter Of all life On Earth The iceberg Is now ripping The unsinkable Titanic Homo Sapiens
Pissing In The Wind
Would have been astonished of So neat and packaged now It fits just like an old glove The disorganized majority Always pissing in the wind Fragmantated filled with hatred Only to themselves they've sinned
For All Life Is Interdependent
Then the government Now the corporation Next the cooperation Of every human on Earth For all life is interdependent
Unforeseen Consequences
With the 70,000 plus chemicals in use Our children's future we stole The legacy we leave is nothing but abuse Of ourselves and our beautiful planet Earth We do not know the unforeseen consequences Of the interaction all these chemicals together We do not know how they will affect our senses But I can tell you now it won't be for the better
Distractions
Filling you up with useless information There are no need for your dreams We just want a homogenous civilization Distractions everywhere you turn So you're caught up in the game Distractions maybe someday you'll learn Are only here to keep us all the same
Blinded
Blinded by ambition Too deaf to heed A slave to submission Materialism fills your days Return on investment rules Corporations have their ways Indoctrination of the fools
Don't Worry
Don't worry about all the pollution Don't worry about deforestation Don't worry about a sustainable solution Don't worry about global warming Don't worry about the ozone hole Don't worry about new viruses forming Don't worry about the kids future we stole Don't worry about nuclear weapons or power Don't worry about pesticides in your food Don't worry about 4000 kids starving to death each hour Don't worry about the TV being stupid and crude Don't worry about all fish stocks declining Don't worry about corrosive life killing acid rain Don't worry about the massive strip mining Don't worry about billions of slaughtered animals pain Don't worry about the 266 billion for defense Don't worry about total corporate power Don't worry about the loss of common sense Don't worry about chlorine in your shower Don't worry about grain yields diminishing Don't worry about cancer rates rising Don't worry about another species finishing Don't worry about your company downsizing Don't worry about recycling your trash Don't worry about genetic engineering Don't worry about it ending in a flash Don't worry about anything you're fearing Because our complete devastation of all life Is now irreversible
Once Filled With Hope
But there is none to be found It is getting harder to cope With the devastation all around I try to find hope But I'm disappointed every time I'm at the end of my rope Waiting for humanity to pay for its crime I try to find hope But it is irreversibly too late I was once filled with hope But now I know that which is to be our fate
The Weight Of The World
I want to sense the wonder I want to advert the tragedy I want to stop the blunder The weight of the world The time running out The hate constantly unfurled The crime of silence all about
The Pervasive Charade
Prop it up Never let it fall The pervasive charade Is now spoken By all
A Dead Canary In A Coal Mine
Marching to the sea I see all of humanity Racing to the end A dead canary In a coal mine that's me Warning us now The Earth needs to mend
To Bare Witness
Show your voice Together we band For we have no choice But to bare witness To our own desolation
Hoodwinked
We've all been hoodwinked A long long time ago The democrats and republicans Devilishly sold their souls To the corporate interests Now we can look forward to Destruction devastation annihilation Brought to us so sweetly In a candy coated wrapper
The Masters Biddings
Imbedded throughout the land The masters biddings Woven into the fabric of our lives Eradication perversely Unending on a scale so grand The billion starving babies During my life's dying cries Apathy prevailing The conditioned sheep are all around The masters biddings Are now done without a thought or sound
A Unity Of One Percent
Who revere all life on Earth as dear Must begin to form today If there's any wish for survival here A unity of one percent Resonates when thinking as one Causing a critical mass Where sustainability will become Upon all future generations
Consume Less
And then back again and again For this that and all the other Silly useless and wasteful things We no longer are looking to share Like we did way back when Almost everyone helped one another Lost is the happiness this brings Open yourself try voluntary simplicity Learning to consume less is so freeing Show the corporations no complicity Slow down enough to just enjoy being
If You Believed
What would you do With all your heart would you try Never stop till the one percent knew If you believed such as I What would you do Just wait for humanity to die Given up because it can't be true If you believed such as I What would you do
Keeping The Status Quo Alive
In the face of certain annihilation A masterful job where PR firms strive And a dumbing down of education Keeping the status quo alive In the face of certain annihilation The place media conglomerates strive And all Hollywood produces obfuscation Keeping the status quo alive In the face of certain annihilation The part for politicians so desperately strive A government act of incautious deliberation
Tinkering With Divine Creation
Like a bunch of babbling babies Tinkering with divine creation Never caring about all the maybes Trying to genetically engineer life While your own species goes extinct Lying to hide all inequitable strife When to Earth you are forever linked
The Oligarchy
Executed by the privileged few Horrendous nightmarish actualities Brought to billions of a darker hue The oligarchy are indubitably maleficent Running the Earth 24 / 7 with never a rest Her straining systems now going inefficient As any future generation so sadly will attest
A New Ethic Of Caring
For all life on Earth is needed A humane way of sharing Where reverence for all life is treated A new ethic of caring Must now form quickly from you and me For the web of life is tearing Apart much faster then anyone is willing to see A new ethic of caring Or our species will be taken care of From bad to worse will go our faring Till in the end there was no more love
Our Rightful Place
For which nature provides Our rightful place Is when harmony arrives With all life on Earth
Complexity
Yet we arrogantly go about our merry way Diversity being felled in one generation Never again to see the light of a bright new day The intricacy of all living beings on one another We know so little about and don't seem to care Variety being extinguished to put out and smother For future generations there will be nothing to share
Imperative
Of a better world for all Each and every way though it seems On deaf ears my words fall Quite troubling this is for me When there is nothing more imperative My job here is for as many to see That now is the time we can't be sedative
Our Responsibilities
In almost every way that is conceivable Our responsibilities long ago we let slip The utter stupidity of man is unbelievable Build your weapons and let millions starve Have your religion and plunder the resources Take every rainforest to cut up and carve Follow the leaders blindly until your losses Are no more
Love Must Spread The Word
You who do not care You who say it can not be You who deny it and swear You must be awakened today By those of you who know the truth By all of you who have seen the light It is you who with love must spread the word It is you who must show others what's right
Precarious Equilibrium
Insanity is pushing the envelope Precarious equillibrium is so dire In a world that is going for broke
The Obedient Masses
They are the obedient masses It doesn't matter what's being sold Just stay in your station caste classes And now as the world is going to hell They still have little to no concern Their souls to the devil they gladly sell Will the obedient masses ever learn They have the power within themselves To change the course of history
The Worst Of All Our Atrocities
Is the worst of all our atrocities To ransack her from near and far Forever diminishes our perpetuation We have but a small yet significant role In the elaborate interdependence of all things Living a sustainable life with congruity the goal And a love of the diversity that all life brings Will stop this damage toward nature that we do With the worst of all our atrocities finally ending But until that day comes all I can say to you Is that nature is dying when it needs to be mending
Sweet Intricate Beauty
Sweet intricate beauty Good-bye to all we knew My White Rhino beauty Good-bye to fine details In the superstring soup Good-bye to friend chaos No butterflies in the loop Good-bye forever to you Sweet intricate beauty Good-bye it can't be true Humanity has failed its duty
The Window Of Opportunity
Is staring us squarely in the face Begging us to form a unity Before we fall from natures grace
Smell The Roses
To make money society With television constantly Enslaving you to consume Try to often stop And smell the roses quietly Meditate and exercise daily To keep one in tune
You Create Your Own Reality
Look at every angle Seek and you shall find What your heart desires You create your own reality Which in turn Reflects your daily personality The being that you are The aura that surrounds
Repercussions
Will we act in time Restore the earth or you'll be Taken away to make it fine
Distorted Views
Cover ups and lies It doesn't matter which administration They're all cut from the same pies Distorted views Slanted news It'll make you numb What right to choose You'll only lose Are the thoughts of some
One Every Second
One every second They're praying for salvation From the misery there born in But we turn our backs Having our own problems getting by Avoiding the horrid facts While the 3rd world babies cry Till death
The Beings From Afar
Must look at us and laugh Just babies in evolution Crawling down extinction's path
John Lennon
I'll even admit I idolized you Your assassination ended an era so they say But your message still lives in me each day And I'll reach the masses because I feel That certain destruction is for real If our ways don't change from what is now And stop the killing weapons we let allow Oh the hypocrisy we let go on The human civilization ends with a con With shortsighted leaders sedating us all Technology betrays with apathy we fall
As Confusion Creeps In
As confusion creeps in Forgetting pain ruining health What is moral what is sin Each day blurs by Does anything really matter Alone sometimes I cry Wondering will tomorrow be sadder
The Atomic Hump
And here we go again Constantly in conflict and fight I think it's time to say when Enough is enough I'm bored of the game Drop the act of being tough Finally realize we're all the same I call it the atomic hump The make or break time Flourish on earth as one Or pay for the ultimate crime
The Best We Can
Each day closer to having none Wake up and see where your eyes are blind Look both ways and then you'll find We need a way for all mankind To live together the best we can No more arms to kill each other Population curbed for another Pollution stopped or we'll smother Hunger fed love your brother
Confined To Conformity
Stuck in your ways Living so uniformly Trapped in your maze
Feed Them Guns
While innocent die Starving mother's sons Have nothing left to try Money making weapons We will supply When farming technology Is the pleading cry
Piece Of Debris Number Three
Has been rendered useless Mismanaged shortsightedly Plundered expediently
Forever In Harmony
One more time Will we cover ourselves In our prime Or learn to live As meant to be Back with nature Forever in harmony Which we choose Is up to us Either we fuse Or forever rust But now's the time To make the choice And only together we'll find They'll hear our voice To make the changes That have to be For us to live Forever in harmony
A Generation Of Lunacy
But yet feel so defeated Born into a generation of lunacy Where with destruction I'm greeted I feel a failure With no future in store A no win situation With materialism the whore
From One Another
From one another Sell with feeling Beat your brother Get rich quick While humans starve Your fcking sick But still you carve Strip till it's bare No more tomorrow's For children to share There will only be sorrows
The Sin Of Sins
Skillfully corrupted Meager mortality Nuclear deducted The sin of sins The killing weapons No one wins Stop the deceptions Life would cease In vain again War over peace Another lesson when Too much was learned And turned to kill Suicide was confirmed But they went ahead still
Who's Fooling Who
And see through the lies When you know it ain't fair Yet you don't even criticize Your just as wrong Being weak and accepting Giving into the strong Who think their decepting But who's fooling who And who'll laugh last When in the end you knew What you've learned in the past
The Cry Of Helplessness
It won't hold out Man's raped nature There is no doubt We've grown too fast Become a burden Taxed the system And called it progress The peak of selfishness To make life easy The cry of helplessness
Follow If You Wish
Our morals slip away And still the politicians say Tomorrow will bring a better day Follow if you wish But suicides the risk And ignorance the dish You feed upon
Without Weapons
With hunger disease and pollution You give only your apology Because you think there's no solution To the arms race we let go on To instinct survival Passive to the deadly harm To evolve this far Just to be had by a con You apathetic humans With no sense of direction You follow like sheep Just tell me why Cause without weapons We would flourish Live without fear Every human nourished We could end diseases And all the suffering But still you follow like sheep
To Take All That's There
So much goes down A life so busy Just revolving around Money and power Greed and despair Living each hour To take all that's there
Insanity Can't Last
There all around Pay the fines to Mother earth's ground Birds and animals Their disappearing Man is next Yes I'm fearing Evolution too fast Is the reason Insanity can't last Taking each season Till nothing grows From the ground Only pollution flows With radiation found In you and me
A Vicious Circle
All the crutches All the choices That pass us by Escaping them all To get high It's a vicious circle Hard to break Where nothing matters When it's all at stake
Follow Aimless Sheep
On this earth I'm sure Follow aimless sheep So easy to ignore The extinction of life Throwing nature off balance Will one day catch man For there's no avoiding
If Only We'd Try
For you to see How can I make it So all can be Free from pain With no more weapons No soldiers slain By monetary deceptions No TMI The sun is ours If only we'd try To unite the powers And stop the deceptions We let go on But each election You fall for the con In hopes of better When there all the same How long does it take You to get wise to the game They're out for now And backed by an interest
Gates Of Heaven
I passed by The Dakota Sunroof open barely creeping An hour before the end I saw a shadow Lurked in the darkness I thought security Because the article How many times I've past before Those iron gates Can I cry once more Since I was five I've heard the words Now only vinyl Is left to hear
The Tears Did
Shed
Will it get worse There's rainy weather With a black hearse The tears did shed While not believing A word you said So much grieving Did leave me numb And memories ago Kept filtering through Of a time when no It can not be Ever again
Start To Care Now
Time is of the essence The answer is not political Each day gone by lessens Our very survival here What we can do Is up to you and me We can save ourselves If we want it to be Where our grandchildren Can laugh and play Start to care now Please don't turn away It starts in you It starts in me Help restore our earth So future generations can be
We Make
100 acres of tropical forest Goes never to come back Within just one hour 4000 children starve to death While surplus crops go bad Every day that goes by There are 27 oil spills In the United States alone In one orbit around the sun More than a trillion dollars Of killing weapons we make
In Order To Exist
Its hard to tell In just a flick We've emptied the well Foresight is cheap When it's too late We're sinking in deep Still wanting the bait Computer malfunction Warning overload Drastic measures needed In order to continue We must all realize this is it We must change In order to exist
As If By Divine Plan
And think about this Listen real careful Cause there's no time to miss It's getting beyond reach It's gotten out of hand The power hungry preach As if by divine plan And you don't know Or just let it go by And you're always on the go But always asking why They drain your life Squeeze every last drop Tell you of freedom When looking from the top
Groomed Puppets That Deceive
In this land of the free How money breeds dedication In the name of liberty With political promising lies You know better than believe They're all the same you realize Groomed puppets that deceive So you give up hope Believing it will never change Apathy is how you cope Something you always found strange
Without Deception
With cut out steps Leads you nowhere Without deception
Too Much Too Soon And Then
Apathetic up till the end Too much too soon and then No recourse
Take Take Take
It's complete madness It can't go on It'll never last Take take take Until no more Is left to give
Test Subjects
We are the dying breed We are the last checks Here to balance the greed An awaken you all So we can plant a new seed Knock down the wall That strangles you like a weed We are here to change Extinction to perpetuation Get rid of the strange Leading us to devastation It's all up to us To want a new day With us you can trust We won't lead you astray What's best for all Is the way it will be Knock down the wall For unity is the key And it won't be easy Cause they're set in their way Molded in the cast Until their dying day Which won't be long So we have no time to waste We've already been led along So now we have to haste And think for tomorrow Forget about yesterday It will only bring you sorrow And happiness is the only way
Evolution's Choice Is Now
The hour glass Evolution's choice is now Humanity's last pass Won't wait Tomorrow's awareness In vain too late Today's judgment Decides earth's fate
You've Given Up Hope
You can't change the system Mellowing out with age You no longer try to resist them You've lost your morals They've changed your ways But deep down it eats at you They've trapped you in the maze Torn between the dream you had And the life you live Still knowing your being had But not wanting to give
Inhospitable
We're destroying ourselves Making tomorrow inhospitable As long as today it sells
Extinct Is Forever
Technology the tool Extinct is forever Don't be a fool And say it's all right Or laugh it away Stand up and fight Our numbers will say Something positive That will catch like fire An expose all the greedy Cold hearted liars
To Shed Some Light
About what I feel is wrong To shed some light About how we're led along In this land of the free We must be brave For our future you see A new road we must pave
Playing Fate With Dice
For good or bad Our earth paradise So don't be mad In the years to come We pay the price Following blinded leaders Playing fate with dice
A Merry Go Round
With the played out scenes A merry go round with inbetweens Lost in a fog in a sea of confusion Looking for help through realities illusion Got to break out and get away Or the conditioning ties will stay Trapping you till tomorrow's today Becomes a bitter memory of yesterday
Government Sponsored
Unless you care I can scream and shout About what ain't fair But you've got to change From deep inside Brought up fast and strange Don't run and hide From the troubled day By taking drugs To escape the pain It's a cover up To keep us down Government sponsored Every pound
Throw In The Towel
Radiation leaks Cancer lumps Mutated freaks Toxic shock Agent orange Government mock Goes on and on Nuclear waste Leukemia rate Technology haste Is our fate Love canal TMI Throw in the towel And wave good-bye |
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