Malik Peterson - "Yesterday's Future Is Present"
Channel: Malik Peterson
Date: 2011-07-19

Malik Peterson and the original poem, "Yesterday's Future Is Present". 

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Yesterday's Future Is Present
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They said...

There will be no secure lodgings...
no safe havens.
Apocalypse now...
revolutionaries brazen...

just as savage as cavemen...
guns a blazin'.
Human propensity to shed blood's amazin'

Hearts are vacant.
Poison darts are blatant.
What's the difference between sharks...
smelling blood and today's men?

We believe the children are the future...
yet we mold and shape them...
to only feel safe when...

they've got the power...so if lives aren't there's...
it's okay to take them....
and when lives aren't fair...
it's okay to take them.

Suicide bomb...
suicide's haven...
suicide's craved when...
they themselves hate them.

Life's stock plummets daily...
livestock equates them...
human cattle to the slaughter house...
do you get a prize if you take them?
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Eyes open daily...
I shutter and shake them...
trying to get some brown back from that green...
when society jades them.
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I have seen the mountain top...
but we won't get there...
our wound festers hot...
but we don't give care...
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We laugh now at yesterday's malcontents...
lack of moral content made them even less benevolent.
They dug deep but somewhere the shovel bent...
so a crooked path we follow to the smoke with the hellish scent.

lessons never learned...from their faults...we never went.

Those poor souls...yes those malcontent peasants...
our lives are enriched...we dine on doves and pheasants.
They paved the way...now everything's pleasant...

or is it?

Yesterday's future is present.


© 2011 Malik Peterson