Notes About The Poem
When seeing these things, I truly do know what’s wrong. The breakdown of families in America is when, jobs don’t pay enough, parents are working two or more jobs, while the cost of living soars. The average kids of our families are practically living out doors fending for themselves or indoors, being raised by television shows. Tv is programming our children and teaching them rebellion in the form of independence. Churches are being shut down, and our true leaders are being muzzled and told what they can and cannot preach.what do we do?
2 Chronicles 7:14 reads: If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Just Wrong
JUST WRONG
Throughout my life’s journey,
I chanced to see,
Many things to this day that bother me,
Of which I was guided to the destiny,
for me, the straight and narrow, meant to be.
I saw at a grocery parking lot,
a young girl with her grandparent,
weather seething hot,
Swearing and belittling
her own grandmother
a berating like I never heard from another.
I saw a man mercilessly beating his dog,
Two policeman beating
two black boys in a fog,
I saw in an abandoned parking lot,
two parents stripping a branch,
child screaming a lot.
Their teen daughter cried out
in the rear of their car,
As they both administered lashes
and likely a life altering scar.
I saw a man teaching his toddler to read,
His badgering comments spoken,
made my heart bleed,
A black child in her classroom,
smart as a whip,
Raising hands, trying to answer,
yet constantly skipped,
And when overcome with dejection,
hurtfully cried,
Seeing the favor upon the others
her goddess teacher applied.
Scolded and made to feel
she was a problem child,
Became jealous and disruptive
and labeled wild.
I saw a tearful mother slapped hard
by her child,
Fearfully tempered her voice
pleading, all the whole while.
Seemingly entirely vacant
of parental authority,
Asking her child’ “Please behave.
You’re embarrassing me.”
These things and things alike,
are all around,
indicative of a morale
that's utterly cast down,
Our country spirals into
a very dangerous spin,
As our society implodes
by poverties within,
Yet seemingly more powerful is money,
than morality,
Leading our country into hatred
and cold-hearted senility,
And the power of the stars,
called celebrities,
Swaying all of Americans living,
in heroic hypocrisies,
Yet the true heroes are struggling,
and are underpaid,
with classrooms outnumbered
with our children to save.
I just have to believe
as my life continues on,
That more than I am a witness
of the things that are just wrong.
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