"State is a Fear of Mind" - A Poem

Your happiness is fleeting
Only fake faces meeting
When you stand within the swarm
A cliche standard greeting
When you hear the sheep bleating
They demand that you conform

When your free thought is a threat
They'll make you live to regret
That you dared to cut from the fray
You see, the way life is set
When you don't live within the debt
You take their control away

But still we're all buying in
All wearing the same false grin
As we hoard what we don't need
When our excuses wear thin
While we hate our own skin
and sink, still clinging to greed

Take but a moment and see
How tolerant we can be
And evolve for all mankind
Believe that we can be free
Not just you or I, but; we
If we just refuse to stay blind

and remember

State is a fear of mind

Ryan Nikkel

(written while on retreat, title is not mine but something a friend wrote which inspired the poem)