They Have To Be Angry Poem by David Welch

I see so many wrapped up in rage,
it consumes them all despite their age,
anger not caused by crimes they've suffered,
but by ideas that some have proffered,
brought about by those malicious lies
that a person must ‘identify, '
then rant and cry as if there victims,
and some how absolved of any sin.
Brought about by scorning tradition,
and making choices supremely dumb,
not finding solace in family,
but believing they'll ‘change history.'

The crux of it, of their angry fate,
is the need of humans to feel great,
we all feel it, but how it's fulfilled
leads them to talking a bitter pill.
Rather then having kids of their own,
to take pride in when they are grown,
rather than build their abilities
and achieve greatness that all can see,
they instead proclaim that they're ‘heroes, '
off fighting the power, don't you know,
and when all the world seems ‘villainy'
it's required that you be angry.

When something can make you feel that way
you'll do anything to make it stay,
like a junkie seeking the first high…
the things you will do to feel alive…
Say man is woman, and women men,
take a whole sex and disparage them,
say one skin is fine, all others jerks,
pillory those folks who dare to work,
cling to ideas that killed millions,
wish your own culture to be undone,
ignore all the truths you plainly see,
to feel righteous from being angry.

This is what makes them feel good in life,
loosing that cuts worse than any knife,
they'll proclaim you should lose all your speech,
then they'll tell you what to think and preach,
what you should eat, and do for a job,
and dictate to you your thoughts on God,
convinced they're elite, they've got it right,
that utopia is within sight,
making politics substitute faith,
so all not onboard ‘deserve' their hate…
and their lies the great hypocrisy,
their anger is warmed up tyranny.

Their false righteousness won't turn the page,
you can't go backwards to a ‘better' age,
leaving them stuck in an endless loop,
making them angry and lifelong dupes,
with little chance of finding some peace,
their addiction offers no release,
they'll scream ‘anti-fascist, ' roam the street,
looking for random people to beat,
they'll double down and will never find
that they are trapped in childish minds,
it must suck hard to be so PC,
forced to forever be so angry.