Category: Poems about Society

The world’s so messed up
That you must have a purpose,
Your part to fix it

(The story behind this poem; only read this part if you’d like to hear my personal story. Skip if it you’d prefer to glean your own meaning from the poem: I wrote this poem to help me vent my emotions about a specific dispute that happened. I am trying to convey how humans tend to event more and more arguments to solidify their initial impression in their mind even as more facts made it clear their position was wrong.)

This poem is about my own struggles to find my purpose, my way to help make the world a better place.

“Only to get by.”
“There’s no other choice.”
“You’re overthinking.”

The story behind this poem; only read this part if you’d like to hear my personal story. Skip if it you’d prefer to glean your own meaning from the poem:

This is about how others say to not think and just follow what those who tell you what to do when these leaders give unreasonably and/or unethical proscriptions. I was particularly thinking about how this happens in workplace.

Blocking catharsis,
Militant ignorance, and
Feigned resolutions

Blast from the past:

Choreographed crowds
When viewed in isolation
All political

I want to explore
How the grain of the world runs.
The show must go on.

Blast from the past:

To your world that is,
I offer you the world as
I think it should be.

Unabashedly
Elitist yet structurally
Disadvantaged

Blast from the past:

To those who care less
About transparency than
Maintaining access

Intellectual veneer,
Underlying obsessions
Multiple constructs

Blast from the past:

Static management
“Meritocrat” politics
Nothing you can do