Hello World

This is my introduction to the steemit community. I have lived a fairly boring and uneventful life. Along this path, I have felt I have no voice. Today I am laying claim to my voice.

I am 38 years old and growing tired of the system and the direction the world is heading. I have 2 children and I fear the world they are inheriting. I have spent the last few months uncovering truths that I once ignored or passed by unaware. While I struggle with where to go from here, I'm really just searching for like minded people to surround myself with. I am fully behind the decentralized movement and that's what has brought me to Steemit and DTube. This revolution will be won with information and I want to do my part, however small.

I served 16 years in the military but I don't really have anything to show for it. The world is worse off than when I enlisted in 1998. I bought into the narrative that I was protecting our freedoms, yet came home to a world where they were being methodically whittled away. Well it's time this ended and we stand together and reclaim the country we were promised.

A long time ago I used to write poetry as an outlet that very few people ever read. I have lost everything I have ever written over the years. I just wrote one for the first time in over a decade and want to share it with you all. I hope to rediscover myself through this form of expression and to share it with this awesome community. Well here it is, my Introduction.

hello world;
this is me.
not the one you used to know and see.
In search of truth,
so hard to find.
so many years I spent, deaf and blind.
the dark surrounds,
lulled to sleep.
herded about with the slumbering sheep.
ever since I woke,
the friends, they say:
I don't want to hear it, don't think this way.
my world, it shrinks;
with walls closing in.
problems so vast, how can we ever win?
then all at once,
the sheep they stir.
the truth it spreads; the lines get blurred.
can it be?
just in time?
teetering on the brink of the worlds decline.
will they wake?
why can't they see?
the world, this place, just isn't what it seems.