OddinAustin

What Color is the Cup?

What color is the cup?
Which bathroom is the threat?
Who’s allowed to speak online now?
Meanwhile…

We’re yelling at screens
Like that’s how things change
While CEOs hide
And rearrange the cage
You hate your neighbor
For a headline you red
But the water’s on fire
And the crops are dead

We ban books
But not lead pipes
Argue pronouns
While they strip rights
Buy flags
Made in overseas chains
Then scream freedom
While we die in lanes

Left! Right!
Wrong! Fight!
Blame your cousin
While the rich take flight

Meanwhile. the planet’s on fire!
Meanwhile. your rent’s climbing higher!
Meanwhile. they poison the well,
And sell you a brand-new version of hell
While we debate who gets to pee
They buy up all the land and sea

We pick our teams
Like it’s life or death
While they buy yachts
That take your breath
We fight for scraps
That we never chose
While the system reloads
And the exits close

They feed us outrage
One click at a time
So we scream in rhythm
While they steal in rhyme
We’re fact-checking memes
Like that’s power
Meanwhile…
The sea eats Miami Tower

Blue! Red!
Green! Dead!
Argue the flavor
While they eat the bread

Meanwhile. the oceans rise higher!
Meanwhile. the forests catch fire!
Meanwhile. we cancel, we block,
While they pick every lock
They said divide and conquer – true.
It’s working. On me. And you.

Ask yourself:
Did your enemy really steal your job?
Or was it someone in the boardroom?
Did your neighbor crash the system?
Or was it the tech bro’s algorithm?
Are you mad at the puppet?
Or the hand inside?

Meanwhile. Air you can’t breathe!
Meanwhile. Lies in every feed!
Meanwhile. They laugh while we bleed
Still arguing over what woke means.
Meanwhile. We build our own cage
While the world falls down
And we feed the rage.

While we fight each other
They buy the future
…Meanwhile