Our Defenses Are Our Prison Poem by Sven Rhoads

Building up the walls around our minds
Letting the electric idols take over our lives
Believing anyone with a hollowed out opinion
No longer to tell what is real anymore
Protecting our young with loving razor wire
As all the world around us has been set on fire
Silencing voices with the digital screen
Within the DNA there lies all our screams

We try to protect by putting up these fences
And now our prison is made from defenses
What kept out the evil has locked it all inside
No longer to face fear but just to run and hide

Safe in the ways of a sweet delusion
Playing silly games drenched in violence
Hypnotic pills to become our solutions
Dragged through the mud is now self reliance

All those monsters that were under the bed
Have been exiled out to the idiot box
Poisoning and rotting the brain in their heads
Dumb has the dirt with a head full of rocks

We build up these walls to save ourselves
And the bonds are broken, trust nobody else

Are we protecting ourselves or have we built our own cages