Somebody that I used to know

Things have become so different from what they were.
I never thought it would ever be like this.
You used to be the one I confided in...
The one who knew my deepest and darkest secrets...
Now you are merely a ghost from a memory...
Haunting my thoughts from a time so long ago...
That I can sometimes convince myself that it all never happened.
You were nothing like the past before you...
But even more contrary to the future after you...

Wake up

We are being misled,
Lies are what we've been fed.
We are feeling so alive,
But intellectually we've been dead.
The government has bound and gagged us.
The oppression is surreal,
But it's true...
The only one who can set you free...
Is you if you choose to.
Edifying yourself is the only way.