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What is wrong with this world : Alliteration Poetry

written by Poet : louis_in_nc


What is wrong with this world!

I’ve been sitting here thinking about the future that so many doubt

The wars that rage on foreign soil and our own lands constant turmoil

Acid rain that’s falling down killing crops without a sound

Mothers killing their own kin and hedonists engaged in sin

The ozone layer fading fast melting icecaps that just won’t last

The AIDS pandemic gaining ground and yet no cure for it is found

Murders, rape and petty theft, taking all the hope that’s left

Prejudice taught under academic guise, clouding all our children’s eyes

The cost of living going up as all our money goes to the corrupt

Drug addiction at an all time high, with pushers convincing our kids try

Homeless living on the street without a single thing to eat

Government taps on every phone and politics carved in brittle stone

Terrorists here in our own back yard and immigrants with no green card

People being beaten down for little more than how they sound

Lifestyles under scrutiny because of fanatical religious apathy

And all the while we look away ignoring what we see each day

What is Wrong with this world!

Nuclear weapons being made and those who sell them getting paid

Pedophiles that lurk the net, going after any child which they can get

Soldiers dying every day to keep down the cost of fuel we pay

Cities taken out by flood while the government cleans its hands of blood

Racists passing outdated laws that subjugate without a cause

Morality that’s fading fast because the media wont let it last

Amorally dispositional miscreants that revel in their own decadence

Serial killers shooting down any soul that could be found

Atrocities committed with the utmost sin because of the color of someone’s skin

Entire countries laid to waste so their leaders can make some bank in haste

The growing separation of social classes that gets force fed to the worlds masses

The downhill slalom of capitol gain that inflicts great hardships and lasting pain

The open abandonment of compassion that seems to be so much in fashion

Our natural resources being exhausted while everywhere life gets accosted

And all the while we look away ignoring what we see each day

What is wrong with this world!

Slavery that’s still alive today, despite what all the textbooks say

People bought and sold like cattle in a never ending human battle

Education that’s way under par and alcoholics in every bar

Headlines in the world’s news that only shows their jaded views

Cloning sheep and human ears on mice, were playing god and that’s not nice

Pharmaceutical companies making medications that only cause further complications

Brothers killing their own brothers, fathers killing their son’s mothers

Children going with guns to school because they think it will make them cool

Religious leaders falling in disgrace because they touched a child in worships place

Cults that make a pledge to die because a comet appears in the earthly sky

Information that will never flow because our government thinks we shouldn’t know

Biological weapons and chemical killers being bought and sold by their distillers

Pollution filling our lungs each day as we support the facilities that make the air that way

It seems like there is so much distress that fills this world with pettiness

And nobody seems to give a dam, because we only care about our own personal plan

And all the while we look away ignoring what we see each day

What is wrong with this world!

Originally Posted On Site: 2007-05-03 07:26:11
Last Login: 07.09.10


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