Name: So I Said It
Duration: P00H01M47S
Description: A beat poem about the state of the world and a wake-up call to humanity.

So I Said It

from A Kootenay Flower in Foreign Soil by Erin J. Bauman the Panoptical Poet

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A beat poem about the state of the world and a wake-up call to humanity.

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I don’t want to alarm,
or cause any harm,
I’m not saying you should be armed,
or move to a farm,
unless that holds charm,
but I have to call attention
to things no one else will mention,
even if it causes contention,
though that’s not my intention.

Truth cannot be confined,
no matter how the system is designed.
We need to use our minds
to find
the rewind
button on this unkind
capitalist program that has made us all blind
to the overload of overcharged input
changing the quality of our output,
making it hard to have a positive outlook,
and leaving us all on the hook
for this collective anxiety
that’s infecting society
in the name of propriety
and notoriety.
Things that are fleeting
that leave us competing,
never completing,
only depleting
never really meeting.

Wisdom is lacking
in the midst of this slacking,
backtracking,
and fracking
that only causes cracking,
factioning
and fracturing,
when we should be enrapturing.

Matter is a loan,
not something we can own.
We all die alone,
so put down your cellphone,
leave your tablet at home,
don’t be a drone.
It’s time to stop chasing,
racing,
erasing
and misplacing.
Forget about hating
and waiting.
Take the time to connect
and reflect
instead of neglecting
the state of the land and the oceans,
or our downward motion,
or our own real emotions,
that are buried in the commotion
of all these options,
that are really illusions.

You know in your heart,
we all did from the start,
what was really right and wrong,
even though we’ve played along
for far too long
in this game
we’re all too afraid to name,
because no one wants to take the blame,
we’re all too ashamed
to admit we picked the wrong seed,
and allowed evil to feed,
so no one can be freed,
and we’re all left to bleed
on this altar of greed
that recedes
our power to fulfill our own common needs.

So I did it,
I said it,
I spelled it out.
Believe it or not we can all do without
electronic overload and materialistic doubt,
so give your head a shake, take a look around,
and see what life is really about.

credits

from A Kootenay Flower in Foreign Soil, released November 27, 2021
Written and Read by: Erin J. Bauman, the Panoptical Poet

Recorded and Mastered by: Steve Marc/SMG Endeavors

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Erin J. Bauman the Panoptical Poet Castlegar, British Columbia

The Panoptical Poet is an environmental and social justice word warrior who ex-amines the many varying viewpoints of our current global reality.

Each poem Erin writes is an attempt at bringing to light the undervalued voices that are being silenced in the landscape of our collective conversations.

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