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The Modern Age - Poem

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It's hard to have faith,
In anything these days,
Watching corrupt governments,
Destroy the old ways;
Knowing brave men and women,
Give their lives for a cause,
Without knowing that their fighting,
Yet more meaningless wars;
A country targets its own,
Attacks a civilian site,
When the oil in the Midddle East,
Is their real reason to fight.
A revolutionary speaks out,
Against discrimination,
Only to be imprisoned,
As a threat to the nation.
Power is stolen,
From the people and land;
Tell me, what's the value,
Of the common man?
The cost of living rises,
Beyond an average person's means,
And children are worked to death,
To make your designer jeans.
People are starving,
Closer than you think;
Somewhere, a child dies of sickness,
Everytime you blink.
On every few street corners,
A homeless person sleeps,
And, abused in her own home,
A beaten wife weeps.
A woman dies of cancer,
In a hospital ward,
For want of a drug,
That her family can't afford.
A disabled man is trapped,
Confined to his own home,
Countless teens can't find one reason,
To keep going on alone.
A gay man won't go out at night,
These days he lives in fear;
The last time he did,
He was jumped for being "queer".
A single mother struggles to balance,
Her children and her work,
And magazines pressure women,
To lose each physical quirk.
Convicts wander the streets,
Let out on parole,
And gangs haunt after dark,
Completely beyond control.
A student is writing,
Somewhere close to home,
Some say a conspiracy,
Some would say a poem.
She dosen't care how the interpret,
But hopes to change these way,
Beacuse she can't have faith,
In anything these days.
I wrote this in Environmental Studies. It's a far throw from the poem I wrote this time last year, [link](Innocence); Hard to believe that little kid grew up to be this cynic, huh?

I don't know why I wrote this; maybe because I'm in one of those depressive moods, or just because I'm more alert to the suffering occuring in the world than normal.
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D4ncingD4wn's avatar
Beautiful poem! I love the rhythm, it's very fast paced. And the rhyming makes it flow off the tongue nicely! The theme is very relevant to world issues that everyone can really relate to, I know I was able to see myself in this poem! You truly have a way with words! I do see a couple of spelling typos but those are easily fixed.