[Complicity]

Pressure groups make noise
To stop the onslaught of desire
Arguing in tune
With their favourite line

Be it weather or food
The messages are loud and clear
Heard by herds
The world over

But I know desire's grip
It's infectious stance
Drives action first
As rationality comes in second

The root to tackle is there
In the depths of humanity
Found in the impulse
And unspoken thoughts

It emanates up into action
Repeated again and again
Until it's hardly noticed
By the actor on the stage

So it'll never work, no
To harp on in theory
About how the world should be
Let's see it as it is

A deep look inside
Can cause vertigo
Make a soul feel sick with realisation
but it'll pass

Inspect, inspect
And then respond
'My desire is my action
In conflict with all else'

The point being complicity
It takes two to tango
Even more to create our world
In all its economic complexity

The individual is heralded today
Yet ignored in reality
As we all converge
In brnded liberalism

We are complicit
That's the point here
So, we either accept our fate
As our desired state

Or we look deep
beyond the guilt and remorse
To how we'd be
given the choice