How can anyone say

we live in poverty;

when we are so rich in negativity?

With justified nonsense as a currency,

We measure our superficial intelligence;

just like a country’s GDP,

We marvel at technological superiority,

We seek advice from advertisements,

We even embrace oxymoron-ism

like a religion,

What a show of pea-sized

intellectual capacity,

For how long must we live by pessimism?

Must we betray our own senses

even when the consequences

unfolds itself before us?

I can only pray for a U-turn,

before we all fade into oblivion.