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D.Lester Young
Senior Member

since 2001-12-08

Posts 1219
Austin, Tx

0 posted 2002-09-01 02:44 AM

Have you ever wondered what happened to opinions?
They are never discussed any more
Deviate from the norm and you become instantly invisible
Your words becoming ghosts haunting no one
Floating helplessly in your own confusion of such isolation

Try to change something today and you must die for it
Only then will the media acknowledge a problem
Trying to make some sort of sense of it
Of what would drive some to this extreme point

In society outlets for communication must be met
Frustrations must be heard in open forums
Attitudes must differ while conformity is restricted
Otherwise the extremes of reaction boil over

To argue a person’s points is a good process
Where change is initiated by the thought process
Only under investigation
Will the foundations of a free press flourish?
Otherwise it will corrode in a controlled state of decay

Why must we all now think in the same way
That is how newspapers play us
They never let us offer the readers opinions
Just an editor’s opinion that is shacked
By the powers to be

Much like a Federal Reserve System
The nation is slowly conforming to mind control
Where the media is not for free thinking
But under corporate like control
Of stereotyping a induced way of living

If the music in our lives has so much variety
That no one would dare to change it
Except some religious zealots with Iranian attitudes
Why does my thinking have to be controlled?

It is sad to say
But my words may have a bigger impact beyond me
Where people analyze history in a factual way
By the people who make free thinking live
On someone stumbling on a poets thoughts

D.Lester Young (08/31/02)
Tuscaloosa, AL
Copyright © D.Lester Young (White Eagle poetry)

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

1 posted 2002-09-01 08:01 AM

D Lester,
an outspoken but well spoken write
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2002-09-01 11:27 AM

Maybe you need to get in differeent crowds when you want to debate, hehe, the Pharisees and Saducees relished such, I'm sure there are plenty who like this much. Like politicians, barbers and bartenders. Oh, wait, I think bartenders are the listeners.

You are really good at making your point, D., have you ever thought of joining "Toastmasters?"

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

GOlDsparklESS
Member

since 2001-12-13

Posts 428
central nj

3 posted 2002-09-02 10:52 PM

hey- keep throwing your voice out into the rampant stagnation of ignorance our country appears to be submerged in. there is only one way out of this calamity of stupification.. and that is AWARENESS. Voices such as yours reaching critical mass will overthrow this SH*T. thank you.

O' to be delivered from the realm of the rational into pure song...

the_loner_23
Member Ascendant

since 2002-06-08

Posts 5479
Jacksonville, Florida, USA

4 posted 2002-09-02 10:54 PM

Very well written

Cold hands means a warm heart

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