A chemical to wake you up, a chemical to put you to sleep. Chemicals to clean your hair of the oils that hold it in place and yet more to then hold it where you want it. Genetically modified broccoli grows larger due to chemicals, laden with more to keep off the bugs that eat it. They preserve, protect, destroy, grow, shrink, kill, save, relieve, smell, taste, and change the color of our everyday existence and without them we may not survive.
But with them, we may destroy ourselves.
We have chemicals to control our thoughts, squash our intelligence, grow our tolerance for pain. Others make us faster, stronger even. The chemicals can turn a man into a genius, or into a blubbering fool... and yet, these chemicals keep our world together. Glue holds together our buildings, Gelatin holds together our food, poisonous plants color our caffeine-filled energy drinks and life-saving medicines infect our bread.
Pleasurable chemicals are addictive, helpful chemicals taste foul. Chewable vitamins crumble their chemically-processed body building blocks into our stomachs that are simultaneously pushing bile back into our appendices that are useless today because we've chemically removed the need for the previously life-saving organs.
But you know, and tell me if I'm wrong about this... You know that we're doing it to ourselves, right?
That this whole chemically-altered world we're living in now was our choice?
In our blindness, we sought to eliminate death, disease, pain, foul flavors, bland scenery, cold nights, cold bodies, bad food, e-coli, mold, mildew, disease-carrying pests, difficult bowel movements, insomnia, night terrors, mental disease, fatigue, drowsiness, laziness, vitamin-deficiencies, poisons, contagions, learning disorders, stress, blindness, dysentery, and depression and instead replaced it with something far more worse for the human condition.
A lack of Hope
As we sit in our chemical cars, looking at the sunset turned blood-orange from the chemicals in the air streaming from the plants to create the chemicals we pump into the tank every day we don't have hope that tomorrow will come. We know it will, and because of that we've lost our hope that tomorrow we come. We've lost appreciation for today because we all know that tomorrow will be more of the same.
Life is easy now;
Another day after yet another Chemical Sunrise.
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