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The streets don’t sleep, the people
fight,
Not for justice—just for their right.
No trust in laws, no faith in guards,
Only fists and broken shards.

The rich feast high, the poor dig deep,
Dreams are sold, and hope is cheap.
The land they love is signed away,
By hands they swore would keep them safe.

No sirens call when cries are heard,
No badges shine, no promised word.

The land once green, the rivers wide,
Now choked by greed, the people cry.
Gold and soil, once free to till,
Stolen by those who eat their fill.

Promises fall like dying leaves,
Signed in ink that no one reads.
The cops don’t come, the law’s not fair,
Only power speaks, but does not care.

From villages lost to towered steel,
The farmers weep, the hungry kneel.
Their voices drowned, their pleas ignored,
By men who sit and count their hoard.


So they rise with fire in their eyes,
For only they can break these ties.
This poem, reasamble my country, Indonesia Condition, police and gov's are corrupted, they have taken the right of poor people. People dying in the street, fighting to get their right.
J J Aug 2023
Eyes roam the room
Clockspun, mapless
Treasures found in
The things left behind

It is not her fault that you miss her

There are no borders without reason

And the reasons are not one way nor simple.

When she was gone it was like experiencing the worst grief
All over again and it took
So long to settle in that it was over.

Shedding skin, depersonalization
Winter cried it's last breath to a
Window I shut closed.

Times up,you're alone
Again but what's the difference
And so I guess what's the problem

It's nothing new
Bleddry-empty
No more hate left
Alone and stranded

(I was

Now I am

So far passed

That stage I start

To find it funny)

Today is the horizon tomorrow and whatever before is all illusionary.

No gun in my hand no knife in my hand no food in my hand no money in my hand no ***** no **** no smoke no blow

Two cats on each shoulder one angel one devil but they both switch roles too frequently to catch up it's all good though

It's me who's decision maker in the end
And it's never been any different
I live with my regrets nightly til I learn
From them I just hope you're the same
But I'm done thinking we're the same
It was truly a waste of time
We've never been calibrated.

Catch me in the next life I'll hold the door open for you.
Shoutout E,E,Z,R and J in that order
Unknown Mar 2021
The return of the poet
was enough to make everyone ecstatic

thoe it meant lots of people would know it
that the poet had constructed

new ways in which to play it,
the words that were now corrupted.

the poet had returned but with a concerned mind.
they were no longer a poet.
Man Jan 2021
my son turned to me today
"do you hate anyone?"
sure, i told him no, as a father, but it wasn't true
my daughter turned today and asked
"what am i?"
and, as a mother, i replied she was my daughter

i tell them santa's real
i tell them the easter's bunny is
and the tooth fairy too
i tell them white lies
till their insides turn black
till no longer
do they
turn back
i tell them lies
so they won't ask
it hurts to lie to them
more so though
to take the axe
to innocence
still so young
Nikolette Oct 2020
For we all describe the same world
    In many different languages
      But we all have the same idea
        Of what this corrupted world thought us
Although we all have different and unique lives, we all have the same story to tell
Kristina Sep 2020
What if
we were all once made
to shine
like the stars
in the sky?

What if
we were meant
to be beautiful?

What if
we were light?

But then
we got
corrupted.

What if?
Euphrosyne Mar 2020
Three corrupted men
Lurking through the night
They feel safe because they think they have their right
Groped a minor and said it'll be alright

Covered some stains
Just to hide their nasty remain
Tried make a public apology to their crime
Yet the minor they groped they paid and promised to be a mime

Defended by their colleague
What a shame ester and joe,
Known to be a famous comedian
Yet they made Deliah's story a joke

Until now they're convicted
We all know that uncle changed the system
Even though the true story were written
And there it goes people didn't believe to the victim

The minor got traumatized
Her brain and body got paralyzed
She were gone wrong and despised
And decided after 4 years of trauma she planned to suicide.
A true **** case from the year 1990's. Labas mga Pilipino HAHAHA kilala niyo to
basil Mar 2020
there's someone
inside of me
that is good

but i wouldn't
know them
if they looked
me in the
eyes
and told me
i was
human
CautiousRain Sep 2019
"It's not love."

Okay, sure,
so suppose I were to concede.
Then you're positing that
more than half the love I've ever received
has always and forever been null.
this has been sitting in my drafts forever
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