Future Less Bright Poem by lauren rogers

the world beyond our shameless eyes
is drowning more than we can see
where money is what cheating buys
but never seems to grow on trees

tomorrow's dreams of yesterday
have dissipated in the heat
of poisons and ozone decay
while houses crumble in the street

our lives drone on repeatedly
toiling toward some unknown end
forlorn attempts die feebly
to fix what time itself can't mend

the government is fraudulent
and slightly skewed toward tyrany
what they say and what they meant
shout greed and mass hypocrisy

and for the future we invest
no questions asked, no answers raised
about the past we joke and jest
yet disregard the present days

but who's to blame, and who's to say?
why should the 'Land of Liberty'
or any other nation pay
for crimes of all humanity?