(d)rift

in an age of data

a billion statisticians

flaunt google searches

and scream their knowledge

with self-righteous fervor

and what is known as right is won

by arguments based off data

collected, counted insignificance.

so outward is the focus of the mind

that nothing matters but the

iconoclastic goals built up by masses

designed to destroy themselves

and scare the soul

into submission.

and it might not even matter what the goal is

each of us is motivated differently

to discover some Truth

and bring forth some purpose

and that motivation makes us hate ourselves

and it makes us hate the world the way it "was"

and the newfound data-driven hatred of mankind

will strike us dead before our hearts stop beating.