I Opened Up My Eyes Poem by Daniel Richards

I opened up my eyes,
And I swear I saw this sight
Circus top a Ferris wheel
And Catherine wheels alight
Replaced the pavement ways to those places
We spend our days, in caged at a desk, chained to a wage of scraps
This is what I saw this morn, when I opened my eyes
Society has twisted its lies and now no one can ever see the light
Only merchandise’s and its simple short lived delights
They offer us a piece, of a cake we cannot eat, but,
Will flick us crumbs if we bow to their feet, and with sacrifice of self they will raise us up
The well of life,
Can’t you see we moving fast like a train
Into a foreign land of misfits and the deranged, but
It is they, the deranged that hold the chains
And tomorrow will be same and its repeats again and again
No station no platform will stop this train
It’s a gravy train of slavery, forever it will remain for inside our mind our brain
We refuse to stop ourselves and say we wanna get off
Simply because the train’s delights are enough to quell the mind of times gone rough
Destiny is repetition of the same and I wish oh I wish we can change
Few will but not enough to make a drastic change
I broke free and lay in the gutter by the drain but at least il survive free
From the gravy train of slavery life
But saying that somethings die to stay alive and perhaps the path il choose will
Revive what’s left of me inside I’m not scared as I know I can survive