Ticket 2 Ride

Another grateful day on the green side of life
Too much noise, and it's louder
A world overflowing with strife 
Be a neighbor, not a crowder

Ease back and unplug the rhetoric
Plenty of rage in the express lane
Everywhere, a societal wreck
Life/death, split by a thin membrane

To live in peace or pieces
The wise empower not imprison
Classrooms now battlegrounds
Young critical thinkers have arisen

We can become lost in our own star field 
Blinded by tiny specs of hope
Drifting away on outdated ideals
Disappearing from the telescope 

Once bold, my voice is now just civil
The meek must guard their inheritance 
Or face the horde of false prophets 
True freedom requires our resistance