Weapons Of Mass Distraction Poem by Adrian Wait

The weapons of mass distraction
Regurgitated misspeak and doubleword
Mind games, manipulated and produced
Truth owned by the elite media giants
Darkness hides the rising shadows
Banks in crisis, Politicians in deep
Gangrenous laws seeped through
Deregulation enforces monopoly
Opposition folds and conforms, as planned
Charged with a bigotry or lack of choice
It throws away the cards in its hand
Laws ensure Freedom of choice is limited
To the few, the precious few, self chosen few
Insanity stalks and invites conformity in
Rest awhile take no heed of conscience
Whispering deceit lacks no guile and grips
Voiceless, breathless, lifeless, truth suffocates
Falling to the floor crushed by hopelessness
Media elite rises empowered by thought control
Owning ideas, the gatekeepers, and shadows
Ensure unending dialogue will veto opposition
Mantra unveiled… ‘Change’ is the word
Dictate what people watch, read and hear
Editorial opinion polarised, flags unfurled
Power lies - Conformity not diversity
Categorise, Label and dismiss, ‘change nothing’
Mass communication controls the crowd
Even as the mob cried ‘Crucify’ so be it
Then bow the head and turn away
We have no god but mammon
Secret lies depend on distraction
Divide and rule, lie and fool
Before our eyes, misspeak, doubleword
Weapons that destroys democracy
Free speech for the powerful requires
Deregulated monopoly owned by few
Misspeak and doublespeak guarantee
More channels less programmes
Human zoo of celebrity distracts
Shallow gossip passes for news
Reveals opinion not tangible facts, Info’tainment
Replaces the responsibility of thinking
Segmented, softminded, served in easy slices
Right before our eyes, misspeak
Doublespeak, a web of lies
Beware the window is closing
The next pie sliced – the Internet
Beware the darkness conceals
A populous controlled, subjected
Sleeping with eyes wide open, beguiled
By our weapons of mass distraction