Walls Around Our Hearts & Homes

They sold us a lifestyle of loneliness

And we bought it

Isolation at its finest

Stress at it’s heaviest

They told us it takes a village to raise a child

And we believe it.

But there’s walls in between us,

Along with race, status, and belief differences.

They said it’s a full time job

But it’s not

You can’t leave the office of parenthood

You can’t mute the call of your child

It’s not 5 days a week

It’s every hour of the day

And it’s not a job

It’s an honour

But the badge of honour comes with a prick of betrayal

A system and society that puts profit on a pedestal

Leaves future generations in the financial forecast

Children are nothing but a chime of coins for tomorrow

When they should be the building blocks of today

But every building on every block has been designed for the hustle

The rat race to nothing you actually wanted

Running towards the carrot of deception

Time to introduce an interception

A reminder of what’s real

We need to stop paying taxes to tyrants

Authoritarians that don’t give a shit about our authority

Invest in a community that cares about your family

We have the power to create our own reality

To stop spinning on the hamster wheel of governmental property

Getting played like puppets with no sovereignty

They don’t own us

And the onus is on us that they don’t own our children too

Building a community is full of job opportunity

Funding our freedom

And investing in shared property

Building on land where children can play

And veg can grow free from poisonous sprays

We could siesta and share meals

With enough hands to cook

And eyes to watch over our kin in kind

Homemade bread and homeschooled minds

Chlorine-free water

And indoctrination-free education

We could instil equality

And be truly happy

If we stopped paying the perpetrators of hierarchies and poverty

Please, someone out there tell me you’re with me?