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to kill a xenophobe

May 29, 2021
By sophiaswain9106 BRONZE, South Hempstead, New York
sophiaswain9106 BRONZE, South Hempstead, New York
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Discussing human rights seems like choking on a mouthful of phrases,

not only because places to start are as vast as this ocean of discrimination and greed, 

but because we’re drowning.

And because the crazy capitalist comrades look down with glaring eyes

and blood-covered teeth. 

Say hi to all the naysayers with their notches of narcissism in their belt 

Those are the hope inhibiting hooligans that will refuse to humbled and stand tougher in harmony to inflict harm on us

Here's a game Mr.s and Ma'ams take a survey to see who has ever been wrongly regulated 

for a crime they did not commit due to race, gender,

and to who they choose to be in a relationship.

But in fact, you would receive a road filled with regulars

Human rights should not be a controversial topic yet as I write this I’m experiencing tangled knots throughout my body 

attempting to cap off my ever-growing thoughts,

attempting to silence my own voice

attempting to stick with a bastardized status quo.  

Do you notice those closeted communities in the halls 

or the men that do not have enough balls to understand the word no? 

This is just life in a small town 

I've been told 

as I pick up my tattered and torn dreams and escort myself to be brainwashed by the big business who feed off weaknesses to receive a big bag of bucks each week

And is not just me who endures these endeavors of exasperated enemies 

Just ask around kind sir, here everyone who had been called a sickening slur 

Don't silence desperate voices and deny them 

Don't declare them delinquents 

Just say their names and hear their struggle

We beg this of you 

Because while it's getting better, the KKK website is open for anyone to sign, hate

crimes happen all the time, and mental health matters are deemed as a crime.

Ladies and gents, step up and take a look at the astral projecting, anorexia answering, abomination of a generation. 

We go to different realities to escape the mortality of the sick mentality of our society

That's a fun word society, let me explain it to you dear listener 

It stands for socially ostracized critically inclined entity to yearn (for) 

That is the invisible monster fellow peers

This is who we need to beat


The author's comments:

I'm sophia s 

I'm 14 

After experiencing and enduring xenophobia in a public high school, I wrote this poem. 


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