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The Daily Routine

December 21, 2022
By jguadarrama21 BRONZE, Chicago, Illinois
jguadarrama21 BRONZE, Chicago, Illinois
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Fresh air

People walking

Cars moving

Birds flying 

This is the Daily Routine


For as long as we known 

Nothing in this world is free

Knowledge isn't free

Food isn't free

Living isn't free

We’ve worked and worked–for what

Just to make ends meet

Nothing is free

In this Daily Routine


Kids going to school

Parents working

Teachers are teaching 

It's all in their Daily Routine


People yelling

People fighting

People planning

People starving

People working

People hurting

This is all in a day’s

Daily Routine


Parents yelling 

Kids crying

Police interfering 

Children alone

This is their Daily Routine


Stability is gone 

Mentality is gone

Family is gone

What's the point


Nothing really goes as planned


The air is polluted

People barely making ends meet

Children taken away from their parents

Parents taken away from their children 

Mankind vs Mankind


This the world’s Daily Routine 

 


Jose Guadarrama


The author's comments:

“I get inspiration from my mother.  She watches the news and tells me what’s going on, and I use some of those topics for my poems.  Having a loved one tell you they care makes you wonder how others might be living, other people who don’t have that care.” - Jose Guadarrama


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