A voice and statement
I'm curious once again
How you/the brothers of order
Preach: Trust, Love, Charity, Peace
And condemn the ones that truly need guidance Make good men great
How about you open the gates
Appeal to the rebels
You say your light is fine and mighty
So turn to the ones trapped in purgatory
The mental cell hell that was created
Yet, no fault of theirs
The lineage sequenced
Administered wartime behavior
Lead by example, ye say
No man left behind
But a whole country cries out
From debt and deficits
Poverty and conglomerates
Looking glass must be but of a myth
Or did it backfire once looked in it
You could turn that mirror right around
Look at yourself for being so proud
Pat yourselves on the back
For your charitable tax double come up
While babies lose sleep
Hungry mouths to feed
Broken homes
Traumatized minds
Violence between husbands and wives
Fathers and mothers losing time
Sending most to go half out of their mind
For convictions, celebrities serve on house arrest And sports players charges expunged
Keeps more paying fans, I guess
So many grants to be awarded
While properties unclaimed
Collected on but not reported
Used for jet rides
Long pay to argue about trivial jurisdiction Elephant or ass
Excuse me, but who's teaching the class Underpaid teachers you say
Yet curious why common sense and class are lost It left while you all were cutting expenditures and creating new laws
Raising the tax dollars
Making it next to impossible
For an underprivileged family to ahead
Having to revert to selling drugs instead
The very thing condemned for you all created These are all facts
That needed to be stated
About this poem
I wrote this poem to be a voice for the lower-class, underprivileged. I sent it to several fraternities. Both locally, nationally and overseas. Ripples were made and connection established. However, I hope the ripples wake becomes larger and inspires a wave.
Written on 2021
Submitted by lynsiechase3 on January 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,657 |
Words | 324 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 45 |
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