Tolerance Lows
Our president openly inciting violence against non-whites,
we tolerate
Our family facetiously being cruel to in-laws, we tolerate
Our clergy consistently molesting children, we tolerate
Our healthcare costs causing millions of bankruptcies, we
tolerate
Our minds looping, by default playing old tapes, we tolerate
Our military proudly invading and killing civilians, we
tolerate
Our marketing companies forcing their fashions down our
throats, we tolerate
Our people asleep, enabling the status quo, we tolerate
Our police unlawfully killing Black folks, we tolerate
Our friends not building alliances with other minorities, we
tolerate
Our Congress blindly spending billions on endless wars, we
tolerate
Our spouses divorcing and getting pets to not be lonely, we
tolerate
Our TV media’s 24 / 7 American propaganda, we tolerate
Our Republican politicians serving the top 1% elite, we
tolerate
Our fellow citizens pointing machine guns at our temples, we
tolerate
Our babies whining, being spoiled brats, we tolerate
Our taxes stolen to pay for warfare instead of free
healthcare, we tolerate
Our Muslim rulers enslaving nations to foreign powers, we
tolerate
Our news channels selling ads instead of giving education,
we tolerate
Our corporations exploiting our insecurities to make us
consumers, we tolerate
Our kids carrying billions in student loans, we tolerate
Our genetically modified foods giving us cancer, we tolerate
Our radio stations saying crap songs are bestselling hits,
we tolerate
Our parents dis-owned and rotting in nursing homes, we
tolerate
Our leaders enriching themselves and not representing the public,
we tolerate
Our sugary drinks manifesting our diabetes, we tolerate
Our folks’ paranoid biases against other groups, we tolerate
Our legalized medicines turning us into junkies, we tolerate
Our selves being alienated and isolated without support, we
tolerate
Our fats and fast foods causing our obesity, we tolerate
Our demons assuming the worst in other people, we tolerate
Our country bullying the world like a godfather, we tolerate
Our loved ones leaving and dying, we tolerate
Our nation aloof, ensuring that business as usual perpetuates,
we tolerate
Our direction lost and life purpose remaining unknown, we
tolerate
By Fazeel Azeez Chauhan
7-23-19
You serve a bitter medicine here Chauhan, but your words (for the most part) ring true to me. In a state of chronic dis-ease an organic system loses sensitivity to toxicity. Natural alarm signals that something is very wrong pass by, tolerated. They are tolerated because the signal has come so many times, but the body cannot respond anymore. Like a diabetic body on a constant sugar drip, insulin rises but the cells can't keep up, can't story any more of that toxin as fat. Likewise you write of sick state of our human community. The whole community body is inflamed, oxidized, literally rusting. This kind of toleration leads to decay and death. What is on the other side? Although direction has been lost and purpose seems hidden in these moments, that is the one thing you and I must not tolerate. There is a known purpose, a definite direction, that restores balance and vitality and leads to new life.
ReplyDeleteWell said Mr. Brunjes
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