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United we are U.S.

Poem By: B Leaf
Poetry


This is the way i see modern America in a poetry format as well as possibly a short story. View table of contents...

 

Submitted: Jan 4, 2008    Reads: 61    Comments: 2    Likes: 2   


United We Are U.S.

Children are with us now,
From every country loving each other without the evaluation of anything,
More then the inlying breath .
For all spirits are indiscernible by the eyes,
So let us supervise nothing,
And grasp love with every breath our lungs can muster.

The children today are the present of tomorrow.
Christmas comes and outshines the true meaning,
Of God nearly translucent,
As we,
Meaning all of us,
Allow for a substitute teacher,
 thus named,
 |Stimulating our own economy.
Why not be wise men?
Giving three gifts to our brethren,
And praise to God,
Giving gifts of charity for Jesus,
 So that the unfortunate may smile,
 For maybe the first time in an eternity.

Kids of misfortune are members of us.
Parents trying so hard to just connect ends,
Nothing meats,
On the table vegetation,
 Eating your dough,
 As well as white snow,
Clouding your vision.

Johnny is twelve,
He lives in a small little house.
His parents never hit him,
Working so hard they’re never with him.
He embarks in a world of drugs,
Which initially makes his life prime.
He then comes to the realization that the topnotch life he was living,
Was just a misconceived illusion,
A delusion,
Self inflicted,
To drift into,
Tranquility.

His mother still snorted at the dinner table,
And his father toked up into a muse.
Now Johnny is in his moms stash,
And smoking all of his dads grass.,
Terminal is what his sister becomes,
 Cancer in her brain,
Deficient in festivity as she passes on at the tender age of just thirteen.
And still he believes God is with him.
What did we do to make his life better?
What did we do to soothe his pain?
Us,
 We weren’t present.

Now at the age of seventeen,
He’s still in school.
His performance,
As optimal as could be,
Considering he grew up here with us in poverty.
But did we lend a hand?
Besides an extra can at Christmas time.
Who are we to say we’re pleasant?
When this little boy is growing up like a medieval peasant.

What’s not fair here to us?
Is what unseeing eyes of the world presume,
That we’re well,
And all swell,
All healthy,
And mostly all wealthy.
The world is mistaken,
Most of us are satisfactory with a C,
Report cards lacking A’s or B’s.

The destitute people among us,
 Contend race with the purpose and proficiency to overcome constraints of poverty,
And a hopeless medication of ones vanity,
In attempts to heal the wounds opened by parents,
Slicing away at there child’s psyche.
As they are encumbered in there own addictions.
Expectant you should be by now,
That Johnny has become a replication,
Of totality.
He reflected upon himself,
He was an abomination,
Who’s unbiased rejection,
Was a reflection of,
His Predecessors.

Let us join together,
 And stop poverty among us.
Let us be brethren,
 All from the same nation.
Let us unite and battle,
 Everything that deters peace,
Among,
U.S. 

 

 


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hi! bleaf. ur vision of US is out-of-this-world. but nothing is impossible. enjoyed it very much. ;-)

Posted: Jun 10, 2008

Author Comment:

Thanks I really appreciate it and hope that some day this world can be better and my heart is set on doing what I can. On a side note I'm starting an interesting writing experiment I will call it I guess. Enclosed will be a year in which I write every day about either what happens which would technically be a blog but not entirely just about my life also poetry on some days outlooks on modern government or policies pretty much anything you can think of not really sure how it will turn out but if you want to check it out. Again I appreciate the comment thanks.

the last stanza is a strong statement that truly hits home.
Great.

Posted: Jul 2, 2008

Author Comment:

Thank you I appreciate you taking a look back at some of my older writings since you had already read a more recent one. This is one of my favorite things I have written. I am glad you like the last stanza it is a statement that I hold true and I pray it may happen someday in my life. Thanks again Cheers.



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