Strokes of a Magical Keyboard

Keyboards and pens are BOTH magic if you know how to wield them correctly.

With the stroke of my
Keyboard like a magical pen,
My words come alive;
As I try to wake people
From this political nightmare.

The magic of my keyboard and my words,
Brings about slow change;
Differences aren't shown overnight -
They're made over the course of time
People have told me over the years,
My persistence changed their mind.

I heard it personally from one of my exes -
"Your words make me realize my choices were wrong and I want to do better".

As I irritate people constantly -
With political banter,
Forcing my will into their weary minds-
Slowly rousing them from their apathy,
As I shout into the void on social media,
Screaming for people to actually care-
It certainly feels as though -
Nobody will ever wake up.

While it feels as though
Nobody will wake up -
It irritates and scares me,
How we're so apathetic
To humanity's suffering.

While people just seem to watch -
As so much bad happens,
Like genocide and activists being arrested,
It's perplexing;
How the masses ignore
Everything around them
Like clockwork.

This ever-lasting nightmare
Keeps people asleep;
Propaganda and it's chaos
Forcefully pushes any dissent back,

I have witnessed myself,
What propaganda does to people;
It changes them...
Brainwashes them...
It can turn certain demographics
Into dehumanized category -
Also known as "divide and conquer".

As I've attempted this endeavor,
That's meant to be impossible
In a crumbling empire for 13 years,
People seem to
Love and appreciate my words.

With this endeavor at my fingertips,
As my weary keyboard rages on,
I find myself at a point of no return.

I genuinely wonder
If my spells are enough
To have everyone rise up
And take back what's rightfully ours.

07/10/2024