Fools Gold - The Middle East

We’ve been thrown into the submission of empires. We’re left on the wayside to hope in false liberty. Our freedoms are no more, they are a fallacy concocted by the keepers of truth and the purveyors of lies. What are we to do when all is lost? When our vast network of connection is severed and never to be repair? What happens to all those lives we’ve touched through our words, photos, music, and film? What happens to a world where love is outlawed? To know love is to be an enemy of our safety. To know truth is to destroy the very fabric of our lives. To know anything is a threat to control. Shall we bend to our knees and submit to our woes? Shall we surrender for false comfort? Shall we give up our lives for deceitful causes? Shall we erase everything that makes us human? What will become of us? No one knows, truly. It’s a question left in the air and we let those with greedy intentions to answer it. We stand by and do nothing. Our voices drowned in a sea of lies. Our hopes diseased by dirty politics. Our dreams tarnished by tyrants. Fact is, we’re all well-intentioned at first but we lose our way because none of us have a guide. To let our brains be the guide is to be cold and calculated. To let our hearts be the guide is to be weak and emotional. We don’t see the middle ground, because it’s a no man’s land. Everyone who fought for peace, everyone who had incorruptible values, everyone who dared to dream, all died at the mercy of lunatics who love war. This is a mad world we live in. A world engulfed in confusion. Right now the world is consumed entirely by bangs and whimpers. But this is not how the world will end, by neither a bang nor a whimper, it will end in silence. It’s up to us to decide what kind of silence it will be.

“And change is good I know.”