We the little <br />We the meat <br />We the metal <br /> <br />No names for our faces <br />Bitten tongue on their time <br />Numbers representing our places <br />Nauseous and angry of a taste so unkind <br /> <br />The constant whip of threat <br />The controlled employ we need <br />Held over us to ever remind <br />We need it more than it needs we <br /> <br />Anxiety is the grip <br />On prescribed societal dream <br />Apply grease for the slip <br />Being preached our effort is of team <br /> <br />Or the sprocket may chip a tooth <br />Inevitably breaking many more <br />Revealing a grinding truth <br />In metal shards covering the floor <br /> <br />To distance from our appearance <br />Of which we assumed when born <br />Only recognized by the elements <br />The composition of our base form <br /> <br />A flaw one of maintenance <br />Of renewed application <br />Having need brings replacement <br />Levied by the ethically vacant <br /> <br />The new part that replaces <br />Brings to bare nothing new <br />Lack of human exposed the old <br />In due time the new will too <br /> <br />Begging questions of ease <br />Turning a wrench in space confined <br />Or spreading the replacement grease <br />When burdened by cost and replacement takes time <br /> <br />The real mistake made <br />Is ours of flawed form <br />The mistake of being human <br />The blessed mistake from which we are born! <br /> <br />We head of cattle <br />Champion or diseased breed <br />All the same a slab of meat <br />Made from same sun and same seed <br /> <br />And to nourish this eater <br />And his matter of course <br />And yet never to nourish <br />One thought of the source <br /> <br />Questioning loyalty of the body by the head <br />The gravity of betrayal from words forced said <br />An egregious abuse of this twenty first century <br />Turns once a dear friend now into bitter enemy <br /> <br />Eaten meat peace by cease <br />Too often dismissed with ease <br />By succumbing to a fate <br />Replaced upon the plate<br /><br />Lance Uppercutt<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-fate-replaced-upon-the-plate/
