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If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

2 poems·Since May 2017
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ameri-can't?

May 2, 2017

somehow our country can't see the chaos we have created

 

we have become blind to brutality and ignorant to agony

hate drips from our tongues and we spit it into the ears of everyone around us

people are taking their lives and nobody cares for the right reasons

instead of raising our red and blue flags people are cutting and beating red and blue into delicate skin

all focus is on politics and economics

there is no more heart just hands

hands on bodies that don't belong to you

hands on technology manipulating as many minds as it can reach

hands on substances that block out the pain of people

hands on weapons to blast away problems we don't want to face

yet hands still over hearts pledging to a country we have slowly lost

 

it is a statement far from fabricated

that america can't see the chaos we have created

 
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