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And Archangel Michael embraces the young
girl
Hands her the peace pipe
And returns to his spot in the circle
And the girl looks shyly about
And then immediately lowers her eyes
She is an interesting combination of
shyness
Demureness
And yet also courage
And yes the confidence
The almost arrogance of youth
She looks out
Her eyes are open and clear
And she raises the peace pipe to her lips
And begins playing it
And the song starts out sweet and softly
But it is not long before another note is
detected
And my goodness
The note is one of anger
Yes it is one of hurt
Yes it is one of betrayal
The song sings of the disillusionment of
the adolescent
It sings of how the child believes
The child believes in his parents
The child believes in his teachers
The child believes all that he is taught
And yes the child tries to live up to
what he is taught
And the shock and dismay
Upon reaching adolescence
To find how far from reality is all that
he has been taught
How far from practicing what they preach
are their parents
How they have been preaching and
preaching and yes
Enforcing their teachings upon their
children
And yes, holding their children to a
higher standard
Than they were holding themselves
For they taught their children to never
lie
No, never! Not once! No, not once!
And severely consequated their children
When they caught them lying
Or even when they simply thought their
children were lying
And what a shock it was to the adolescent
To find out that their parents lied
And not only did they lie
But they lied routinely!
They lied blatantly!
They lied, it would seem for no reason at
all!
They lied and they lied and they lied
And they apologized not for their lying
No, they did not apologize to their
children for lying
It is different
they would tell their children
You do not understand
they would tell their children
And they would continue to teach one
thing
And they would continue to practice
another
And no, it was not only at home
That this great disillusionment occurred
It also occurred at school
For at school they were taught so much
They were taught about their government
And they were taught about the
Constitution
And yes, the Bill of Rights
And they were taught to think of these
two documents
As sacred
Yes the very foundation of our nation
And the children listened to their
teacher
In wide eyed innocence
And in trust, yes in belief
And yes
They did hold the Constitution and the
Bill of Rights
To be as sacred
And yes, they had great respect for the
government
For how greatly their Founding Fathers
had established
The government with its 3 different
pillars
The judicial, the executive, and the
legislative branches
With the checks and balances
Each provided the other
And yes
The schoolchildren were taken on buses
and on trains
To visit their nation’s capitol
And yes, they were in awe of the majestic
buildings
And the magnificent statues
And yes, they were in awe of their
government
And yes, they were proud
Proud to be members of this great country
Were the children
And oh my, what a shock
What a fundamental shock to the system it
was
To find it was all a bunch of rot!
A bunch of rot!
No, the Supreme Court
Was not dedicated and pure
No, the Supreme Court
Was not about upholding the Constitution
As the children had been taught
On the contrary
The members of the Supreme Court
USED the Constitution to further their
agenda
And if one doubted this
Then one need only look at the bitter
partisan fighting
That broke out whenever a new member
To the Supreme Court was nominated
Each party wanted a judge of their
party’s leanings
Did they not understand that the judge
was to be neither
Liberal nor conservative
Did they not understand that the judge
Was to be a strict interpreter
Of the country’s foundation documents
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
And that neither political party
Nor right wing nor left wing
Nor conservatism nor liberalism
Had any place in the Supreme Court
No, no place at all
Why this was a travesty!
The notion of a Supreme Court Justice
Using words, words, and more words
To deliberately distort, obfuscate, and
confuse
Yea to say that up is down, and right is
left
And then to hand down the verdict that he
or she pleased
The verdict that those who had nominated
him
Wanted him to hand down
To say that this was a disillusioning
blow to the child
Is putting too mild a cast on it
His very foundation was shaken
His parents lied
His government was not pure
Did not serve the country
As the Founding Fathers had intended
But on the contrary, used the structures
The Founding Fathers had set up
To further their own ambitions
And this was a shock
This was a shock
This was a shock
And again, no one apologized for this
After all these years of false
indoctrination
No one apologized to the children for the
lies
They had been taught
No one apologized to them that the
reality
Was so far less, so very far less
Than what they had been taught
On the contrary, the adults seemed amused
At their children’s naïveté
Or else, they seemed annoyed
You don’t understand
the adults would say
It is not as black and white as all that
the adults would say
And yet had they not been taught all
these years
That it was truly black and white
Had they not been taught that it was a
sin to lie
Had they not been taught about the checks
and balances
In the separate government branches
Only to find out that the separate
branches were actually
Working in concert to achieve
Not what was best for the country
No, not what was best for the people
But yes, what was best for the personal
interests
Of the people who considered themselves
to be in power
In Power!?!
All along the children had been taught
That the government served the people,
served the country
And now the new adolescent realizes that
that is not so
The people in government do not even
pretend to serve
They walked around as though they were
entitled
Yes as though they were in power
No, not service to the country
No, not service to the people
But power, power, power
And what power
Power to further one’s own ambitions
And the new adolescent was left reeling
Every single thing he had been taught
Ever since he could remember
Was a lie, was a lie, was a lie
And the disillusionment was great
It was profound
It went to the very core of the
adolescent’s being
And he knew no longer whom to believe in
Nor in what
And he was left stranded alone
Alone in a world he knew not
A world he had in his innocence thought
he had known
But now in his disillusionment
In his great and profound and fundamental
disillusionment
He realized he knew not at all
And the adolescent lost his trust of
adults
All adults
For they lied, they lied, they lied
And they did so blatantly, they did so
routinely
They did so without apology
And the adolescent turned to his peers
for comfort
And to his peers he turned
To make some sense of this world
That he found himself in
This brand new world that he found
himself in
And his confusion and his anger and his
bitterness
Were dismissed as mere adolescent
hormones
To be outgrown
He was himself dismissed
His protests ignored
His cries of anguish trivialized
You’ll grow out of it
they told him
Grow out of what
Grow into what
Grow into the liars and the hypocrites
that you are
If you had been lying all along
Could you at least have had the decency
To not imprint us with the fact and the
truth
That lying is wrong, wrong, wrong
If you had known all along
That government is all about seeking and
obtaining power
Why did you teach us it was about service
Service to man, God, and country
And what else have you lied to us about
We no longer believe you
There is nothing we can hold onto anymore
And we hate you
We hate you
We hate you
We had adored you when we were children
You had been as gods to us
And we had believed, fully believed,
every single word
You had told us
Every single word you repeatedly drummed
into our heads
And now to find out that every single one
of those words
Is a lie
That you yourself do not even pretend to
believe
How dare you!
How dare you!
How dare you!
And don’t you dare speak to us again
For we shall not listen to you
No we shall not
No we shall not
And we hate you
We hate you for what you have done to us
We hate you for how you have set us up
For such a shock you have deliberately
set us up
For surely you knew
Surely you knew
That we would at some point
Discover that all you were teaching us
were lies
Surely you knew
And yet you chose to teach us these lies
anyway
And when we are left stunned and reeling
You turn to us in anger
And you call us rebellious
And you tell us that we do not understand
And you are right
We do not understand
And you are right
We do rebel
And you are right
We know not where to turn
We know not whom to turn
And our greatest fear
Our greatest fear
Our greatest fear of all
Is that we will turn out to be just like
you
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