Why do you always have to put up a fight?
Freedom isn't freedom when we fear for our lives
We know we live in a fallen world when we see children with knives
They won't stay children forever
Rape, murder, it goes even further
Kidnapping, stealing, blood on the ceiling
Horrors of war, killers knocking on doors
Girls in prostitution, forced confusion
Battery, assault, evil men in a cult
Blame shifting, suing, talk instead of doing
Bombs, guns, thinking violence is fun
Abortion, cheating, children getting a beating
When getting by is enough, survival is tough
No such thing as free love, you want hope stand in line
You want food in your stomach? Grab your cardboard sign
All we do is complain, charity in vain
Starved girl splurging, skinny girl purging
Gotta fight for your right to party, fight as in sneak out
Get drunk, hung over, don't feel right when sober
You fail 10th grade, education starts to fade
It's a harsh world when no future is made
How many times will it take to get it right?
Why do you always have to put up a fight?
A goal is not a goal when no plans are in sight
Sure we can fail, our parents can buy us out on bail
Defend us when we deserve to be in jail
Hardly any motivation, it's all about sensations
Beautiful girls think they're worthless with too much condemnation
It took over 100 years to get rid of segregation
There's something wrong with the world when the TV's our only elation
War to end all wars, that title is deceiving
Power hungry dictators keep us believing
We have to be the best, we can't take second place
Fight until death, surrender is disgrace
A famous man once said a quote in his stealth
The only thing to fear is fear itself
He must have never seen a broken girl
Shaking with hunger, cold with fear
The world is scary, our minds are queer
Perversion is normal, immorality is here
Kids will be kids, they won't do what we say
We seem to have given up anyway
This is a hopeless world, there is no solution
We can try to make it better, start a rebelution
The devil is at work, sitting back to watch the show
Laughing as we run around in circles with nowhere to go
Save the forest! Save the trees!
We should be saying save our souls, the world is at its knees
Racism, Aids, wasting our days
Failure again, lost innocence at 10
The world hates the innocent, we love to defile
Teens walking down the street saying God's not our style
Made up religious to make us feel better
Good words can't help us, we're under a debtor
Slaving days of hospitality, trying to avoid fatality
Living life in a lie, during judgment no place to hide
False promises, genocides, being afraid to go outside
Examples are many, convictions are few
With so many things wrong with the world, what's a 14 year old to do?
How many times will it take to get it right?
I think it's time to put up a fight
We need a future for our children in sight
Author notes
Rebelution- Word from the Brett and Alex Harris conference Do Hard Things. This is encouraging kids to not let the world underestimate them and to try to make a difference when society says kids are only capable of small things.
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very well done
God bless you my friend...


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I take my hat off to you young one. You've said more than a mouthful with this piece.
A very eyeopening write from one so young. Love the rhythm here. You well deserved every trophy you've received for this. Congrats and good luck in this one. -
Spot on hun. You have done yourself proud. I love the tempo on this write, it adds to the burning passion behind it. Your words have much meaning and I am overjoyed that a 14yr old has stepped out of the box and wrote like this. Very best wishes to you.


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PS: Congrats on all the trophies
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What you said is true when it comes to making everyone understand that ALL are important no matter of age, race, religion and gender. As an instructor in several vocations, I have always kept an open mind that the teacher can also learn from students. I hope ALL can understand together we can make a difference. I want to thank you for your entry into the following contest: "To Be Put On My Favorites List."


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PS: Your entry has been blessed by the three wise clappers, but don't spend the whole nine points in one place(lol)!

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this was a strong willed well written write.
great job is all i can say
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Wow, this is so very true. IN so many ways. It shows all the crap that goes on in this world and it is hard to get by all of it with how much there is. And i never really thought about how long all of this stuff has been going on untill now. how we dont really notice it unless it actually happens to someone we know. wow. thanks so much for sending this in. it has first place potential. it is a marvoulus write. thanks so much for entering in my contest. I am sure it will do very well. Good job and good luck
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How many times will it take to get it right?
I think it's time to put up a fight
We need a future for our children in sight
-I guess the 114 comments, 97 applauses and numerous trophies speak for themselves, this is a beautifully crafted, angry poem; despite the hard phonic sounds and spitting anger, I got the message without feeling yelled at.
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You have penned some excellent lyrical twists here, this is awesome and shows a serious understanding of how f....ed up the world is these days.
You have shown that kids are and will be victimized for a long time to come by so many takers and users that it would be difficult to list them all here.
Just know that there are those who care enough to try and make a difference no matter how small it may be.
awannabepoet

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I think the words are really strong, but I think that the writing could have gone a bit farther and gone deeper if you had described each of these things in a bit more depth, maybe focused on listing less and describing more, and putting metaphors and figurative language in because parts of it a are a bit common place or abstract.
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DO me a favor please
and describe this line...
"Racism, Aids, wasting our days"
That's all.
I am asking as the contest host -
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There's nothing to explain.
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oh thanks.
I am just wondering what you meant when you decided to word that line...
Racism, Aids, wasting our days.....
It's simple on what that meant
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I'm listing all the things that are wrong with the World.
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definately quite the write... this flowed quite nicely. encluding you views definately even though some of us say differently, you definately delivered your point across nicely to the read, which explains the trophys, thank you for sharing.
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Impressive and passionate poem.


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What can I say but I LOVE this


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WOW! Intense, amazing read. Good luck.
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sorry way too long hun!! appologies!!♥
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Thanks for taking the time to read it.
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Rape, murder, it goes even further
Kidnapping, stealing, blood on the ceiling
Horrors of war, killers knocking on doors
Girls in prostitution, forced confusion
Battery, assault, evil men in a cult
Blame shifting, suing, talk instead of doing
Bombs, guns, thinking violence is fun
Abortion, cheating, children getting a beating
When getting by is enough, survival is tough
No such thing as free love, you want hope stand in line
You want food in your stomach? Grab your cardboard sign
All we do is complain, charity in vain
Starved girl splurging, skinny girl purging
Gotta fight for your right to party, fight as in sneak out
Get drunk, hung over, don't feel right when sober
You fail 10th grade, education starts to fade
It's a harsh world when no future is made
This really makes the reader stop and think, and its so honest and raw. Thanks for entering and good luck in the contest.
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wow.. this is actually pretty amazing.. i really like this.. big thougt's!


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This is awesome. I really like it. Great job. Good luck in the contest.
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simply amazinq
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oy.... that's definitely perspective, but such a sad one! think about happy things too and don't get too discouraged.
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Increably write, i'm stunned and i'm shunned. Never do w think about every wrong we coment or how many are out there. We'll say save the animals or the trees but others will cry save the children!
I'm one for animals, do we deserve to save our selves when this is what we bring upon others? No, not in my eyes. I'll save sharks and whales, i'll let children crumble because no one saved me when i was alone, no one came to sister's aid when she lay dieing in the street hit by a car and no one could care if my father took the bullet at my head. No one ever thought of stopping the war, they still don't so why do you think i possiton myself so far away from your wars on an island where i can drive around it in a day and still live as high as the eagles yet dive as low as the ocean. Because no one cared for my family when one by one they died.
your poem is breathtaking, i'm tempted to give in now but i made promises to loved ones and i wont ever brake them.
Stunning work well done,
best of luck
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Very thought provoking and sincere. I love the use of the Roosevelt quote. It has a precise rhythm that builds up the ideas nicely. Well written.
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I totally agree, great write.
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finalists list. amazing. exactly what i wanted. good luck and thanx for entering
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to be honest, this should have won more golds than it has. this is fantastic! at first i thought it was a friend of mine who wrote this, but when i saw the name, i was like, fuck, she can write and knows whats going on for a teenager so young. this is truely great and such a true statement. thanks for sharing xxx


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Congrats on your new bronze! WOW! You've entered a lot of contests!
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I enjoyed reading your penning.. good job. Alot of truth and emotion ring in this peice. Good Job once again!
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This is a pretty powerful poem. I read it a couple of times. Your internal and external rhyme is great. I enjoyed the rhythm and flow of this piece. Great job! Thanks so much for entering my humble contest. It’s an pleasure and honor to read your wonderful work


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P: this was overall a quite brilliant write that left me and aww of each and every word you mentioned it was just a stunning write
suggestion: just that some places didnt rhyme you may want to read out loud to find and maybe find a way to have it all rhyme that way it flows even better :]
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This has a very strong rhythm and thats obviously intentional to give the insistent nature of the poem, to make people really listen to it. You've put an awful lot of wrongs that need fixing here and its the sort of poem that can really talk to anyone. Well written.
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I said NO PROFANITY!
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Damn, you don't have to freak.
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Completely agree with mzuniverse, this is so, so, strong. I love the harshness and blunt way you've delivered the truth, and the clever integrating of rhyme into the piece.
There are so many thought-provoking ideas in this poem that the poem itself gets me thinking about how we children express this 'rebelution' of ours. Lines I particularly liked were~
"Hardly any motivation, it's all about sensations
Beautiful girls think they're worthless with too much condemnation"
Rolls off the tongue. Gorgeous
And with all these things wrong in this world of ours...
"Examples are many, convictions are few"
So, so, true.
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Oh this is so strong!
I loved it....
Powerful write indeed with a good message!
Well done


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Loved this, Down to the point. Great rhym. Awesome job!!
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SOOOO True and pretty well written thank you very very mch for entering!
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It takes me a time to read it. If the poem is a bit longer it must be good to keep my attention from the very beginning to the end and this one surely did it. Thank you.

~Sonja~

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This was long, but it had a nice flow all the way through.
This poem is sad, but true.
You did a great job.
You made me speechless.
Thanks for entering and Good luck in my contest.
keep on writing.

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Yes. There is a lot of deception in this world. But, perhaps they deceive themselves the most in the end. Hate will not turn the world around. I believe all hate is a form of fear of some kind. Love is the only thing we can do to ease fear. Love is our role in the solution, I believe.
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I have read this before. It has a lot of energy, quite a rant!!! i seems to me that the religious solution has been tried over and over with little effect. Despite all the preaching and all the praying the situation remains confused. lets all keep in mind that Osama Ben Laudin and the Taliban both believe the world will be a better place as soon as they can establish the rule of religion on secular society.
Good luck in the contest. Now get off the game boy and write something fresh
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another confronting write about real life and how i can also be, thank you for entering
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Very interesting, particulary because you had mentioned some important issues with society nowadays. I liked this, thank you for entering.
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It's not really dark. Sure you mentioned dark things, but...
Teens walking down the street saying God's not our style
Abortion
You picked out what you think is wrong with society, but this just doesn't bode with me. It isn't dark at all, it's more about tone then just chanting about violence and atheism.
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sorry, your poem is way over the line limit but please remember my previous comment about your poem, sorry
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An amazing poem, has soo many ideas put into it, a wonderful poem thank you for entering and good luck
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just wondering how this poem corsponds to my contest? please read the rules thank you
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good piece.
i enjoyed reading it.
keep up the good work! thanks for entering and good luck in my contest!
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"Rape, murder, it goes even further
Kidnapping, stealing, blood on the ceiling
Horrors of war, killers knocking on doors
Girls in prostitution, forced confusion"
These are my favourite lines! Thanks for entering my contest and good luck.
-heva ♫
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This is a powerful poem that shows the strength of your passion and convictions. I look forward to reading your entry in the next round. Peace, Liz
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so i definitly read this last night and didn't get a chance to comment on it so i had to scroll through all these poems just to find it because i couldn't remember the title. lol ok theres my sob story. This is an absolutly amazing poem, so full of truth and just...wow. thank you so much for entering my contest and best of luck!
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nice rhyme
keep it up
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A really excellent society poem that was a pleasure to read. Best of luck, and thanks for entering.

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No denying this was good, but the number of contests you've entered it in? A little obscene.
I think this shows a lot of truth and I appreciate the internal rhyme.
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hey great job I really like thw work that must have gone into this. You really have done a pretty wonderful job. I am glad you entered. Thanks for entering. I give this a 6/10
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That was good. Wow i cant believe it. Keep writing and thx for entering.

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I love the repetition throughout the piece. My alltime favourite lines were:
"Starved girl splurging, skinny girl purging
Gotta fight for your right to party,"
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wow..a lot of contests..lol..yes..your words r truthfully spoken...it takes many trails..n we make a lot of mistakes..but hopefully in the end..we learn something..
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How many times will it take to get it right?
Why do you always have to put up a fight?
Love those lines& how their repeated.
The story is so true...these questions are tough.
"We need a future for our children in sight"
amazing ending.
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This poem is full of fight and tough questions. You have provided a magnificent backdrop to the infected society in which we live. WHilst the subject matter is pretty depressing, you leave us with hope. I thought the rhythm was off a little at times but it didn't really detract from the poem as a whole. Congrats and good luck.
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you know i love your wrk.
and i deffinitly loved this.
amazing. and such a deep meaning.
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breathe taking just absolutley mezmorisin
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Relax!!!
Most of the world is completely beyond your control or the control of even people like Barack Obama. Your job is to deal with the issues that are within your power to do something about. Get an education any way you can. Dumb asses can hardly help them selves let alone anyone else. Be kind to those around you and especially to yourself. Be patient many confusing things will become clear only with the passage of time. And as I said at the beginning RELAX! Focus on the immediate task in front of you. You are getting freaked out by the big picture so stop looking at it. Best of luck. -
Well, you certainly see all the bad things going on in this world, which is true. But, there are good things also.
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Thank god that you can see this stuff going on!..i worry sometimes as it seems that so many are blinded by denial and televisionand religion and lack of empathy..fight on!


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Thank you for your entry. Your poem is very well written if alittle on the long side. the flow was good and so was the statment you made. Thank you!
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no, sorry
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What was wrong with it?
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There's really nothing wrong with it, per say. The meaning you have in it is very clear, and it makes quite a profound statement.
It just doesn't quite fit with these particular rounds, I'm sorry.
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i love this! great job!
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A beautiful write, my friend; thankyou so much for entering this piece in my contest, and I wish you the best of luck!

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I loved this. So real, one of my favourite lines
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I loved this. So real. One of my favourite lines
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Very nice poem. It proves such an urgent point, but for my contest, the only rule was to put your option number from the list in your AN. Please do so, as this is a wonderful, thought provoking poem, and I do not want to have to D.Q. it.
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I'm sorry. Option 39.
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Ok. Very great choice. I really love this poem, as it shows just how much this world has lost itself. You prove a VERY great point, and have written a wonderful, wisdom filled piece. Thank you so much for entering my contest, and good Luck!!!
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Words of wisdom spoken well dear, It's sad but true. But theres a life to live, we can't just sit here and be angry at everyone else. It's like being angry at your mom for not constantly cleaning the house when you could be doing it yourself. What can you do? Maybe nothing, maybe anything, maybe everything, one thing you do know, is you won't know until you try, Lovely write thanks for entering ^_^
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WOW
This is a great poem
Very powerful words. And so true too.
"Freedom isn't freedom when we fear for our lives"
That was my favourite line. I don't think I have a favourite part because they're all so good
Keep writing
thanks for entering, and best wishe
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wow love this bit because its so true
Get drunk, hung over, don't feel right when sober
You fail 10th grade, education starts to fade
It's a harsh world when no future is made
I normally am not one for very long poems but this OMG it really kept my attention!! The bitterness at the world with so much truth!!! and yes what is a 14 yr old girl supposed to do-- it's sad that you have to know all of this already ... you should enjoy your youth..
this was such a fast past and fucking stunning piece!! well done on the gold. You did truly deserve it!!
awesome write with such frustration and anger at the world and people today
aggghhhh I love it!!!

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I really like this...but it's only prose/freeverse.
I'm sorry. =/
Great poem, though♥

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This is an awesome poem. Everything that you wrote in it is true. The world is going to heck in a handbasket.


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o.0 people really enter things in contests more on here than on sw. Wow...
I actually read this one, and didn't get to comment on it. Very good, it's sad. The part of reality that people don't want to face. Although, the only thing about this poem that I must say, is that there is always hope for the world. To say you give up on it is what will make it hopelss. Thank you for posting.
-Savannah

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Good. Haha I saw the Rebelution and knew exactly what you were referencing. Great conference, great write. Thanks for entering
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a very beautiful poem... good write


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Very nicely written.Awesome
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Very nicely written and a strong message within it. Very well done and best of luck in my contest.
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Starved girl splurging, skinny girl purging
This line stung...but in a good way. Although I thought there were a few areas that needed pruning, a section or two that needed a more structure, it was a very powerful and passionate piece. The points made, although a bit overplayed, were still haunting and real...honesty in its rawest form, and that is where I found this piece to be exceptional.
And conclusions such as these:
Laughing as we run around in circles with nowhere to go
Save the forest! Save the trees!
We should be saying save our souls, the world is at its knees
It reminds me again that perhaps it's not just me that's forsaken...but the collective consciousness...and if nothing else, it makes me smile for afterall, misery loves company.
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Very heartfelt and passionate but this is basically a polemic, a screed, a speech. I don't think the observation that the world is a mess is very profound. At this point is there anyone out there who thinks things are going well? I am DQing this to make room for other poems. If you would like to try again please feel free.
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This is very powerful and very well written! I love it very much. When read it opens one's eyes and realize what's really happening around us. Very very good!! I love it!! <33

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Rape, murder, it goes even further
Kidnapping, stealing, blood on the ceiling
Horrors of war, killers knocking on doors
Girls in prostitution, forced confusion
Battery, assault, evil men in a cult
Blame shifting, suing, talk instead of doing
Bombs, guns, thinking violence is fun
Abortion, cheating, children getting a beating
When getting by is enough, survival is tough
No such thing as free love, you want hope stand in line
You want food in your stomach? Grab your cardboard sign
All we do is complain, charity in vain
Starved girl splurging, skinny girl purging
Gotta fight for your right to party, fight as in sneak out
Get drunk, hung over, don't feel right when sober
You fail 10th grade, education starts to fade
It's a harsh world when no future is made
Huzzah. Brilliant and long.

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A powerfully beautiful write; thankyou so much for entering, and I wish you the best of luck!

Maria
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Wonderful
You have raised very natural questions which we all need answer
and the answers I fear we do not have with us.

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Woah, such inspiration from a 14 year old, these qualities of the world is something that will not erase, never, it will always happen and continue to be a disgrace to the human race, this such as these should have never occured in history, it's just so sympathetic for the victims of these. Not everyone can write an exceptional masterpiece using these bad qualities, a job well done my young poet.
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