The people who say,
“There’s just a few bad apples”
refuse to look at
the roots of the trees, refuse
to believe the soil tests
refuse to believe
that those apples aren’t rotten,
refuse to believe
that all the apples
are fresh, that trees were planted
in toxic soil and now
the apples grow as
they were supposed to, toxic
right down to the core,
can we really expect more?
But for so long we’ve eaten
at this orchard, it’s
nourished us and helped us all
to flourish in life
and we keep buying apples
and they’re even more toxic
than before, but we
can’t see the toxicity,
how could we notice
the orchards toxic when we
refuse to look at ourselves?
It’s easy to say,
there’s a rotten one now and
then, it’s easy to
pretend the rest of them are
healthy, and that we are too
but it matters not
what we do. Change the farmer
the fruits still the same,
and toxic apples make pie
that’s absolutely to die
for, no use pointing
fingers and shifting blame, it’s
a shame we can’t taste
the poison that were hooked on,
but we can’t go on without
it, we can’t go on
without buying these apples
and eating this pie
and living this lie that there
are just a few bad apples
soitgoes1984 