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Jun 2017 · 314
The Divide
It Smiled Back Jun 2017
The Divide

It’s always us and them
Never you and I
Society seeks to divide
Never to unite

A society full of “snowflakes”
Turned to a insult again
Each of us an individual
Yet we are all human, and the same.

We label each other like boxes
To identify who we are
Gay, straight, black, white
Like bumper stickers on a car

Minority and majority are equal
Both responsibilities are the same
Discrimination is always intolerable
No matter from which side it came.
Jun 2017 · 284
Hope.
It Smiled Back Jun 2017
Happiness and sunshine fills my heart
I’m dumb but I think I’m smart
Education system failed us
Don’t deny comply make no fuss
Exams test your skill of vomiting
Regurgitated information systematic dumbing
I love God he’s all I need
He gave us the only purpose to breed
Join our cult where you’ll be freed
Into a lifelong sentence of religious slavery
I have a dream to be a star
Success no matter who you are
Except when a bigot runs the company
Then you lose your job and you lose your money
I’m so girly look at me
Lipstick and make- up I’m so pretty
Corrupt cosmetics industry
Profiting off teens insecurities
This magazine girl doesn’t look like me
Well time for some plastic surgery
World peace is already here
I love you so hold me near
Oh beautiful but love is blind
So make like Oedipus and remove your eyes
Cause what’s the use in seeing
When you ignore the dying and the bleeding
Unrealistic body types
Stereotypes hate crimes
A death filled world full of hate
But we can change that it’s not too late.
This poem was created as a reaction to the outbursts of the inequalities and corruption I see every day in society and but ending with a sense of optimism to show that there can be a revolution of love and compassion for all.

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