How can this be? How could this have possibly happened? Everything I've ever been told, merely a lie Wrapped up in comfortable mythology Suffocated by false pursuits of happiness A culture born at any expense From the ashes of history this monolith rises Skyward, ascending reality Leaving in its wake a trail of blood For a saddened existence A societal foundation built on careful calculation Lies and insanity, superego and conquest, unhappiness in destruction Hand in hand When the outcome rules the process When the end consumes the means We leave ourselves with one option: extinction But these ideas run deep Firmly rooted in an inferior superiority complex What cannot be conquered can never be understood What does not a**imilate must be destroyed Whatever it takes to feed this insatiable civilization (We must pursue at any cost?) I hang my head and tense my body in horror IN DEFIANCE For I have ripped this culture's veil from my tired eyes Peered into its mythology long enough to realize I don't want to be a part of it another day I don't want to be a part of it another f**ing day