When My Eyes See Themselves
(original version)
this is what i have seen in my 16
as i look at myself, i saw the instrument i was using to
do so, and i saw anger. i continued to look, and i look
deep and wonder the where, the why, what could
bring such an anger within me. as i continue to look, i
ponder what it is i was wondering, and i think to
myself(haven’t gone through any thing the next
person hasn't been through, yet it's not what i've been
through, but what i've seen). these things that i have
seen, and i continued to look and think. as i think i
picture the things i've seen the lies that have been
spoken, the wiping out of nations by disease,
starvation, the corruption of young minds by the
bringing of yesterdays irrelevance today so we will not
look to tomorrow. these things i see the corruption, the
starving, the poverty, the difficulties of immigration to
the land of the proud and free yet this proud land is
very costly. what's the bill 400 years of slavery, 600
years of open discrimination who has paid every
race except none wanting of change caucasian.
a land so proud when in reality has no
integrity.
a nation the give a month to celebrate 4,000,000 years of accomplishments, but
only recognizes the accomplishments made after slavery.
showing only 400 years of the4, 000,000 years of history
my eye of anger began to weep in sorrow from this realization.
i turned from the mirror and toward a book of knowledge.
i saw not what be if the world but what the world could be.
a world where the tree of knowledge didn't exist
a world without a war within the world
a world without war of races
a world without war of religions
a world were everyone has nature
Copyright © Terrence Carter | Year Posted 2006
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