THE CARNAGE OF TIME

Looking to the future, looking to the past

Putting out the flames of ignorance 

Is the tragedy that we have

The carnage of time

The loss of over four-hundred thousand lives

A community disenfranchised

Now the uneducated run and hide.

Looking to our neighbors, looking to our communities

Moving towards unity, are we truly free

With hope, we live with integrity.

The carnage of time

Walking through a field of destruction 

Littered with rubble left behind

As the uneducated look on with pride

Looking to our mentors, looking to our leaders

A future with positive change is nowhere.

Words spoke with strength dismissing all the fear

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2021 

GREEN GREED

Leaders can't see the change going on beyond their own greed
Plastic in the seas the burning of all the trees
Hot where it should be cold something the almanac didn't know

Green greed
The rich can't see the change as they make the money rain
As the uneducated buys, their lies like its the newest style

What we got they can't have so they tax every man
Keeping their secrets is the only solution they don't know who their fooling
No proof to the lies they are tooling

Green greed
Ignorance is a political seed no way anyone to be free
As the world crumbles down can't see the dawn through the weeds

The hypocrite laugh at there own jokes
As the sing superstar lip-sinks to their own voice
Fake isn't the way your maid you choose to be that way

Green greed
Have no trust in what you see so you create your own reality
You got no cash so tell ever one the world is flat

This is not about you not about me
Not even about those who dream of the things they need


©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

INTEGRITY

Has morel ground become sand and dust
We can't count on the things we once trust

No integrity in a lie when it is the truth you hide
Soft hands soft mind is the result of the ego's pride

The truth once was like steel now it is just rusting away
Optimism tries to heel in the darkness of the day

No integrity in selfish privilege when hate is your only message
Truth and lies today are blurred lines but no courage to acknowledge that

Is justice the cure for the pain or have we lost our way
No inspiring words to take us through these days

No integrity in peace an unfulfilled desire is our reality
Creating the ingredients for genocide as we watch Palestinian children die

God doesn't choose who lives and dies we elect our leaders to do that
Now they wonder why is everyone mad when it is in the past

No integrity in fear wondering what brought us here
Too scared to show you care when hate is all you hear

You come along way to forget yesterday when all you did was prayed
Now you live with a hypocrite lie acting like you care, but you don't even try

Integrity is the inner wealth
Integrity directs the moral compass
I would rather be poor with integrity
Than rich without a soul

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019