Our brains

Programmed

For better

Or all too often worse

What we listen to

What we watch

On television

Or the internet

With false words

False images

There was a time

Way back when

All our experiences

Conversations

Were real

Actual happenings

In our lives

Not any more

Other people’s words

Other people’s pictures

Fed directly into us

Feeding our subconscious

Which doesn’t know the difference

These are false programmes

Treating them as all too real

And our subconscious

Makes us Who we are

With this awareness

Comes responsibility

Empowerment

Keeping guard

Against pernicious programming

We are what we listen to