A LITTLE TOO LATE

A LITTLE TOO LATE

I was relevant once

It was momentary and fleeting

• But it happened.

I was influential once

I may still be

But it doesn’t really matter

I was happy once

But happy is an action

When the world is like

• walking through honey

It’s hard to find satisfaction

Pandemic planning

And impulsive reactions

Got me 13 3-D printers

Among two separate mask factions

I don’t understand it

How many senseless contraptions

Are strapped to your faces

With no purpose or function

Watching it all crumble

• While we are propping it up

With our own good intentions

And sterilized cups

We could eat off our floors

They’re all soaking in bleaches

But we can’t realize the lesson

This is trying to teach us

Modern men aren’t the answer

They are nearly never right

And their perceptions are flawed

(Especially when white)

Modern women are closer

To some one who could save us

But still many are clinging

To the hell that we’ve made this

Now, people of color

Are more likely your friends

But they might likely hate you

As a means to an end

• It’s not really their fault

For all of that hate!

It’s just most of us woke uP

Just a little too late.