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The flow of the pen and the drip, drop of the ink
the words fly out without stopping to think.
How many today are risking their lives
held at gun point, or at the points of our knives?
American virtues and the home state of the sane
Are moot once you have the power of pain.
Dont you see? Can't you hear? the screams and the shouts?
They echo the streets and explode from the mouths
Of the murdered, molested, the raped, and the beaten.
Can you look them in the eye and deny them their freedom?
How do you sleep so soft in your bed?
Aren't the abandoned faces running around in your head?
Can you feel the anger and the desperation?
It flows from the mouths of those with tried patience.
We're pleading you please, we want you to look.
To see, really see, all the lives that you took.
We meant nothing more, than a pawn in your game
So don't you dare state us as your claim to fame.
We were puppets controlled by the governments gut
Deprived of control, but the strings have been cut.
We run half the world and you better respect
The tactics we use to securely protect
Our families and selfs from the infectious disease
of people like you, who brought us down to our knees.
- Title: Dear Mr. President,
- Artist: huxlee
- Description: Political
- Date: 07/25/2008
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Comments (5 Comments)
- Siaya Dragalorn - 06/30/2009
- Ignore Cloffing. It makes wonderful sense, and is no where near boring or awkward. It is a little clichéd, considering that there are a few things like that out there, but your poem is good, all the same. I do not find the rhythm campy, and there are only a couple lines that do not match the meter, which there is one of. Also, most people capitalize the first letter in each line. I do, most poets do.... All in all, I like it. You did good.
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- Cloffing Pempslider - 03/14/2009
- Half of it doesn't make sense, the rest is cliched, boring and awkward. You don't need to capitalize the first word of every line. The rhyming scheme is campy. You don't bother to use meter. Basically there's nothing really salvageable here.
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- xX_X_Fallen_From_Grace_Xx - 12/22/2008
- pure awesomeness
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- Poetic Progression - 12/04/2008
- Daaaamn...even I don't think I could top that. 5/5 and faving!
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- G i i NGER BREAD - 12/02/2008
- love. lovelovelove. This is so good, dude. How? How. How do you do that.
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