Start From Where You Stand

Look at your right side,
there's no room for truth in politics.
Greed is now the leader.
Look at your left side,
even laymen lie for sustenance.
Dishonesty is the killer.

Look at your right side,
the man's selling peace and buying
war machines.
Pay tax in the form of bloodshed.
Look at your left side,
they feed them guns and grow as
patriots. (so-called)
Come back dead and you're a hero.

Look at your right side,
one religion screams "we're the one!",
while other claims that they are.
Look at your left side,
church and partisans drinking blood-
money,
they drown in the name of power.

Look at your right side,
spray-painted foam and plastic food
to eat.
The fruit of death is on sale.
Look at your left side.
Why kill for meat when the meat is
killing us?
Each day is open season.

Now close your eyes and see.
You've been placed there for a
reason.
There's no better place or season,
except from where you stand.
Staring at the sky,
won't tell you the reason why.
More than change is in your hands.
Start from where you stand.