When Reality Became Fiction

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Fake butter

Fake cheese

Fake a$$€$

Fake degrees

When did our desire for reality become fiction?

Our truths a depiction

Jesus is a con but Marvel comics we praise

In lieu of church we binge watch Game of thrones for days

And hang onto every word of a conman

Charlatan bigot misogynist with an obvious spray tan

Put value into things but not people

Spend hundreds of thousands on a mortgage then hundreds more at Home Depot

While there are billions still suffering I won’t get specific

But when history looks back at babies dying at the US border we’ll all be complicit

More focused on our next latte or gadget

Addicted to mobile technology like magic

Under the spells of Facebook, Amazon, and Google

Sharing our deepest desires and secrets with our willing approval 

Searching for products, acceptance, and porn to feed our desire

True to God’s promise though most don’t know we’re all on fire

Frogs in a pot of water that’s incrementally boiling 

Long days and hours constantly toiling