MOON PHOBIA

by  shaun   armando   lawton  

F!E!A!R! fear fear fear fear fear fear 

fear fear it's what we breath eat shit

 and what we die for now right here    

Republican sponsored FEAR 

 Conservative engendered FEAR

 Politically motivated FEAR

 Profiteering YEAR AFTER FEAR

 FEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER FEAR 

 at war with our soul it happens

 year after year FEAR's what all

 the road hog trucks are being filled 

with at the gasoline stations FEAR's 

 what all o' y'all's pretty silly tattoos

 are promulgating  FEAR's what

 we're made of when we stock

 our pantry with guns FEAR's  

what replaced our heart so long

 ago by now it must weight tons

FEAR's our middle name, our way

 of life, what we're advocating 

FEAR's our God and our sustenance

 and our legacy and strategy UNLESS

 we turn it around on a dime, and reclaim

 our civic duty, if we cared enough

 to get our youth to stop being AFRAID 

if we could only dare to call out its bluff

and put a STOP to the endless cycle 

that FEAR generates, right here, right now

let's put our FEAR in the ground 

and  grow a new crop this year, how 

does that sound? Aren't we sick of FEAR 

circulating round YEAR after YEAR? 

Another year of FEAR I can't stand it 

I won't take it anymore not now or here

besides it's not fair to have to fake it 

SHOVE OUR FEAR where the sun 

don't shine and if they can't hear what 

I'm saying then they're the ones

that are playing with a lit match in 

their own dried up back yards, go ahead 

and let them vote to lower the price 

of the gasoline we may as well just pour 

it over our own heads, unaware of the   

routes we chose to end up in the same 

old place good and dead, hey now let's 

not reflect our own hate off that mirror 

visor we've come to wear for a face plate, 

let's just be aware what hypocrites we are, 

or are we so weak we can't even show 

kindness to anyone who's not in agreement?

 I don't know any more, so I must remove

myself from both sides, but I won't be 

 caught in the middle of y'all's fire, so

that leaves me with no other option 

 but to keep on moving, with my head

  bent down low, watching my periphery

 wherever I may go, keeping my Spidey

sense sharpened and in tune, because 

 no one escapes from this prison of the moon.