We use to be free, I can't remember when, but I can remember the feeling.  Warm summer days, just you and your friends.  Nothing to fear, nothing to worry about.

    No politics or war, the only lies told were the little white ones that never mattered.  No thoughts on your countries foreign pursuits, or dead civilians in places you'll never visit.

    Time spent living and enjoying not surviving and decaying.  Looking around and seeing wonder everywhere, now it's just this feeling of dread.

    Does everyone see what I see?

    What happened to the past where everything was going to be all right?  The future seems so desolate and cold or are we being sold on great propaganda?

    When you were young, authority was absolute.  When did questions and rebellion kick in, why do we live in a world where we automatically assume any authority is lying to us.

    I just want to be safe and happy.

    Why is it that I now assume that my government knows about everything I do, everything that everyone does, this is not supposed to be some Orwellian nightmare.  I just keeping hoping to wake up.

    Is it me that needs help or the rest of the world?

    Why is it that freedom isn't free when it should be?  It's always another war for the dead to fight.

    I think the next “conflict” should be fought by the politicians who declare it.  Our soldiers should be there to protect us, not kill in our name.

    I don't want war, and I don't want someone to die for a cause that I don't agree with.

    We all know that war is nothing but a means for making money and keeping power.  Governments care nothing for their citizens, all they want is a profit.  Dead men don't cost a thing.

    The only price we pay are with the lives of our young men and women who thought they were doing the right thing.  

    When will we learn that politicians are at best void of morality and at worst just plain evil.

    Maybe if we just try to remember when we were free and the rest -  well can we just let it be......?