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Social Disorder
Rules! The tightly woven fabric of society
Nothing escapes its watchful penetrating eye
Businesses disguise them
Criminals detest them
Governments derive them
While courts assess them
The schools enforce them
Language requires them
And children thrive on them
While they despise them
Drivers daily test them
Animals obey them
Relationships build on them
Only to shatter them
Imagine the disorder
The chaos in our days
Without those rules for structure
Such total disarray
We champion to protect them
And die for what they say
Freedoms what we call it
Unlikely as it's name
For what really is the difference
Each country has their own
Mutiny is found in all
Not one, does stand alone
We fight each one we fall upon
At work, at home, at play
And if you don't believe me
Just watch some folks one day
They make their way across a lot
The crosswalk, feet away
And scorn the one who honks his horn
Pretending not to know they've strayed
Rules are meant to be broken
Oh, so you'll here them say
And then they'll make there own ones
A hypocrite's parade
11-29-02
Copyright © 2002, Trina Zacharias
