I Read the News Today...
I read the news today...
and every word that it displayed,
seem to tumble
seem to fall
blended together
made head
and my sway.
Oh boy...
Some many men had marched one day;
they march for equality and ask to not to be slaved.
Even though they had shown no chains,
they ask to get rid of the cuffs that others gave:
On how they looked
They wouldn't get jobs
On how they talked
Their thoughts must be wrong
Every opportunity, became less and less
Their freedom given long ago, started to regress
I read the news today...
and it had so many words that bled if you said.
they
seemed
to swirl
inside
my
head.
Oh boy...
A child died; the cause was rape,
her tiny body....she couldn't take.
Her mother cried and yelled out:
DAMN MY HUSBAND!
What a bastardy fowl
How could she not have stop this from happening?
In her very own house
Her eyes must be wax
A child of just five had to die form such acts
I read the news today oh boy....
How is the day of the lives of everyone else?
Copyright © Jessica Arteaga | Year Posted 2009
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