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Suicide's an expression until it happens to you Depression's an emotion till you see what it can do Sexism's just a joke until it hits you at full force And homophobia's merely a religious man who read the wrong source How long do we believe this until we change the way we think How long do we train the generations to judge before they blink Why do we laugh as another person falls Cackling as their world crumbles and filming as they bawl Why can't we smile then just walk away No, we complain to our friends the very next day Tooned into the gossip, well-crafting our lies As the victim behind you watches with teary eyes We make days meaningful to show that we care When a real issue emerges, genuine reactions are rare Read it on the media, a terrorism attack The world will just crumble and we can't ever fight back Because we've trained ourselves to hate, trained to lie Spotting out monsters with disgust in our eyes Searching for answers that explain our disgrace Because we know that we're wrong but won't fix our shape It's not a belief, it's just discrimination A plague that has spread throughout our nation It's a virus just so deadly, a poison old as time And we drank the bottle naively, corrupting our children's lives We say transphobia is God's will, no, that ******** is hate Say the world made you this way, no, it's your decision to make You read and feel empowered, you say that you'll change But if you truly believe that then you're just deranged A girl gets ***** and you call her a ***** Treating ****** assault as nothing more than a chore As children get beat, and the adults raise their voice We turn up the TV to block out the noise We judge based on color, by ethnicity, by age Like even after hundreds of years we can't seem to change Spew hate speech online, treat pain as a joke You'll never know the consequence till your begging and broke So move on with your problems like it's just another day Pass on your responsibility like there's no price to pay But don't you ever think, that this is your fault too? The minute you spot the truth, what will you do?
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Apr 13
Apr 13, 2026 at 10:26 PM UTC
Discrimination
Suicide's an expression until it happens to you Depression's an emotion till you see what it can do Sexism's just a joke until it hits you at full force And homophobia's merely a religious man who read the wrong source How long do we believe this until we change the way we think How long do we train the generations to judge before they blink Why do we laugh as another person falls Cackling as their world crumbles and filming as they bawl Why can't we smile then just walk away No, we complain to our friends the very next day Tooned into the gossip, well-crafting our lies As the victim behind you watches with teary eyes We make days meaningful to show that we care When a real issue emerges, genuine reactions are rare Read it on the media, a terrorism attack The world will just crumble and we can't ever fight back Because we've trained ourselves to hate, trained to lie Spotting out monsters with disgust in our eyes Searching for answers that explain our disgrace Because we know that we're wrong but won't fix our shape It's not a belief, it's just discrimination A plague that has spread throughout our nation It's a virus just so deadly, a poison old as time And we drank the bottle naively, corrupting our children's lives We say transphobia is God's will, no, that ******** is hate Say the world made you this way, no, it's your decision to make You read and feel empowered, you say that you'll change But if you truly believe that then you're just deranged A girl gets ***** and you call her a ***** Treating ****** assault as nothing more than a chore As children get beat, and the adults raise their voice We turn up the TV to block out the noise We judge based on color, by ethnicity, by age Like even after hundreds of years we can't seem to change Spew hate speech online, treat pain as a joke You'll never know the consequence till your begging and broke So move on with your problems like it's just another day Pass on your responsibility like there's no price to pay But don't you ever think, that this is your fault too? The minute you spot the truth, what will you do?
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Bigotry has a smell of death The fuhrer would watch piles on piles of empty flesh In the summer of 1941 On the grounds of Auschwitz, that place weighed heavier than a ton Years after the shoah, would this understanding begin to unfold That nothing stains the soul more indelibly than loathe What do the blind see? Your oratory abhorrence they forsee They see, not your bitter visage But their ears crush under the muscle of your burning rage What do the deaf hear? Even years after the passing of a yesteryear I suppose, they hear words, like skin caressing skin Your tirade tearing their tissues like a throw of javelin Along Its path, since decades, turning into centuries Before times were tamed Even after times were maimed Our tongues have plucked Incessantly The plumage of quarantined birds With stubborn shame And a sequence of demise ensues Their voice also dies, so does their silence Because after all Bigotry has a smell of death
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Mar 22, 2021
Mar 22, 2021 at 10:00 AM UTC
Pentimento
It is as if every word I utter I stutter as I rethink to avoid their words of a terrible idiosyncrasy hollering profanities and shame towards me for the wits presented to them for only glee Their disproportionate lines of reality burns them— like the termites that feed on the heart of a tree— How could I fathom their blatancy in having such an aversion towards me?
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Mar 7, 2018
Mar 7, 2018 at 10:11 PM UTC
Re-ponder
Prince of stolen goods come to take over the nation that spat in his face. We are losing all our ground an marbles; we are not going to be okay, things will not be fine. Mother is in a women's shelter, losing weight and begging for money weekly from her deadbeat son who is now broke. King of hearts take away the sleeping sensation oozing up from my toes to the center of epicenter of thoughts that shake my body like earthquakes of palsy or a stroke made up of every pond or puddle you pass up couldn't hold all the tears I haven't cried. Sister can you hear me now, I'm not exactly trying anymore I'm silent with syllables and loud with my pauses. I'm not going to make it, and I can't turn around. I'm fragile and delicate and some would say I'm flat-out weak. I want you to put flowers on my grave instead of sleeping somewhere next to me, six feet under, or sleeping in wondering what went wrong. This **** isn't your fault. Put a sword or some sharp object to **** away the idea that I'm going to use to destroy whatever is left of myself. **** me, to **** me before I **** me. Steal everything. **** anything.
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Sep 21, 2014
Sep 21, 2014 at 12:43 PM UTC
"Thieves in an Orange Sunlight."