Hope

By Shani Jonas

I actually believe that there is hope for this generation

For the boys and girls and adults of this nation

Even with teen pregnancies

And puberty coming too fast

With rapes and murders

And relationships that don't last

With mini thugs and thieves

With judement that's cruel

With abuse and hunger

And no religion in schools

I may be a fool

To think that we can possibly achieve something in this dog eat dog world

But I have a lot of hope

For just a 12 year old girl

I believe that men

Will stop treating women as objects

That they will stop watching her "twerk her stuff"

And really mean their "I love you"

Women will stop getting dragged by society into the black ashes of the souls that used to belong to confident girls

That they will stop being insecure

So they can see the roses among the thorns

And the buds among dry leaves

I wish that parents will stop beating their children

Because is it worth all the pain?

Killing your own flesh and blood?

I know I can't do much

To change all the evil in the world

But there is one thing that both you and I can do to help.

And that is to pray and

Hope

Hope, for a better life

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