Thoughts deserve more recognition

They’re the fulcrum of decisions 

 

Thoughts transport us away from the things we fear

Sometimes they’re muddy, at other times clear

 

Change can’t happen without an initial thought

Thoughts are as precise as the red dot

 

Seemingly aimed at the head of those who think

It was once popular to be enlightened

Now its okay if you’re thoughts are thinner than skates on an ice rink

Beautiful pictures have stopped being penned

 

I feel discouraged that people abhor the process of thought

How can anyone hate the very thing that has brought 

 

Us this far along the road

It would be better if thoughts were scarce because they were stowed

 

Away because they needed refinement

But it seems that they are nonexistent 

 

I worry that our desire to be numb

Has made us dumb

 

And deaf, unable to articulate solutions

To the mental pollution

 

Our children are swallowing whole

This fear has turned me cold

 

And untrusting, despite my belief that thought can combat any issue

Be it lies, poverty, or misuse

 

Of resources by governments

That would rather have their people in tents

If it meant

They wouldn’t dent

 

The comfy pensions they’ve accrued

But thoughts today are not brewed

 

They are simply hatched

Then snatched

 

Because people love surface thinking

Using drugs or drinking

 

To cloud waters once crystal

Today’s thoughts are a pistol

 

Shooting at an elephant

Not even developed enough to recant

 

Thoughts use to have power and respect 

Now their main purpose is to reject

 

Any reality deemed uncomfortable

A knife gone dull

 

A thought was once used to prove existence

And it received a healthy resistance

 

That could squash any mashup of thoughts that currently passes for complex

Thoughts used to be king, if you will, mentis rex

 

Today they are slaves to desire

Kindling for emotional fires

 

The king needs to reclaim his throne

Then maybe these problems wouldn’t be targeted by a drone