Welcome to Society - CH. 2

"We offer humanity to dead soul unanimously and inhumanity to living soul anonymously." - P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

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Welcome to society,

We hope you enjoy your stay,

Think what you want,

As long as it is what we what you to think.

You can spend as much as time alone as you want to,

Until we tell you to stop.

Make sure you love every bit of yourself,

But only if we want you to.

You can love anyone you want,

As long as it is a relationship we grant.

Of course we value your mind,

As long as your outlooks outshine it.

If you ever feel down,

Feel free to start again,

Clean out your social media,

Study or work in a different place,

Start socialising with strangers,

Chose a signature scent, taste in music, aesthetic,

As long as you purge the parts we hate so dearly about you.

We will help you to make your future bright,

If you are one of us.

We will give you justice,

As long as you do not provoke our eyes.

There are no privileged or unprivileged citizens,

Except for those who we value more and less.

We do not care about materialistic things,

As long as it is not money.

We devotedly promote peace and social health,

We want to prevent the wars, may they be great or tiny,

As long as it does not interfere with our goals.

We fondly appreciate those who want to free us from the dependence on salary,

our currency that costs some to feel food suppression,

We fondly cherish those who want to free us from those tiny flaws that we do have,

overcompensation, overpopulation, biodiversity loss, deforestation, desertification, global warming, habitat destruction, Holocene extinction, ocean acidification, pollution, resource depletion, urban sprawl, water scarcity, poverty,

As long as we do not have to help them.

Some call us the devil in disguise,

But they are just unhappy.

Welcome to society,

A world where we cover empty-headiness and mindlessness with fake beauty.

But we miss the humanity.

Welcome to society,

We are sorry but you cannot leave.

But do not worry,

We know how,

to make hell,

feel like home.

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References;"Welcome to Society" – poem by Erin Henson