I used to care a lot
About politics
Global warming
Energy Policy
Asylum seekers
I read Noam Chomsky;
John Pilger, Michael Moore
But I never went to a protest
Not out of apathy
I just never knew anyone
Who cared about the same things I did
With age I feel
The passion fading away
And think
I’ve got problems enough of my own
I stopped watching ‘Q and A’
And saving energy
And for a time
Replaced it with caring passionately
About the friends I’ve made
And helping them break
The cycle of addiction and crime
Now that’s fading too
And all I really care about
Is freedom and family
And enjoying my time on planet earth
Strangely somehow these days
I feel like a better man
Then when I had political quotes
Pinned to my wall
