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Knives!

Young lives are being slaughtered by knives

law and order seems to have no power

to contain the gangs creating such strife

brutality grows not by weeks but the hour

these crimes getting rapidly out of control

with no logic to the mounting toll!

 

The gangs culture has been allowed to expand

cities towns and villages none are immune

in the present climate they are in command

too often on the roadside flowers are strewn

lawlessness spreads as people are oppressed

helpless we stand as a society transgressed!

 

A bleak future violence escalates and discipline

is now lost allowing worrying complacency in

surely it extends far deeper into our culture

where nobody can see that hovering vulture!

 

Now nobody is safe from the threat of violence

as corruption destroys human tolerance!

 

 

#TheFoureyedPoet.

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Written by
malcolm-terence-gould
English
Published
Apr 20, 2019
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violence seems out of control peace and understanding forgotten!#TheFoureyedPoet.

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