What Has Become of Us?

Question

What has become of us?
We, who’s rough hands formed
All things of industry?
We who brought down the beast
And made of him a meal.
We who clothed and fed the body,
Who nurtured the growing
Things on our blood.
We who mined and smelted
And forged
The very iron that binds us;
Made cathartic
With the bondage of toil,
We serve and sooth our parasites.
We lie upon
The gory ground and
Surrender-up our weathered flesh.
The blood and sweat
That made them strong;
Smug, bold and imperial.
What has become of us,
Anemic and complacent–
Whipped and broken working hounds
Struggling to keep our cages.

Answer 1

What We Have Become

We've become stoic
We, whose blood-filled hands forged
All things of superficiality
Who have raised up a dream
only to twist it with morbidity

We, stripping naked innocence
Feeding the frenzy of decay
Rusted is the iron blood in our veins

An infusion of prodigal praise
And exchanges of green gifts

Has made them hypocrites
We have become
A gradual erosion of filth
Soon to be washed away
By the tides of deception
By the refusal to free ourselves
From our own shackled bonds of perception.

Answer 2

We are no longer grateful
for what we are given.
We compare our lives
to what the media portrays,
food, shelter, and air to breath
are nothing compared to an ipod.

Answer 3

The concept of "we" and "us" has become "I" and "me".

"We" no longer care about "we", "we" care about "I".

Self-centered, self-serving.

Answer 4

who is us?

Answer 5

sorry about your bad luck.