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Living
Living, how do you live
How do you take the limited time
Why would you take that time to rhyme
To describe the world with beautiful words
Waste your time with something so absurd
Writing for hours for someone who won't read
Who is that someone, is there someone?
Is there a reason to describe
The dirt we walk every day
The bright, beautiful, bountiful rays
The people, the people who curse
Who kill, who steal, who r*pe, who die.
Without permission
Just stop! breathe, and sigh
Thats all we can do, and keep living
Attempt to put our two sense in
Because theres the belief that states
Every child of god is our kin.
But who would kill there kin
Would people try harder if they were saving there son?
There daughter, there mom, there sister, there love
Is living just a fast paced run?
A burst of sprints, a call from above
Or is there a way we can live with a stroll,
No worries no pain no thought to describe
No this is a world of greed,
If we are not wealthy we cant sit and ride
In this world there's no nourishing the seed
Its inserting growth-enhancing drugs
And cutting out the weak leaving out the rest
Living is being the best
Living is working to be on top
And if your not your a failure
The living just stops
So I will tell you what i've heard
In my limited time
Live life to the fullest,
but i'll tell you my rhyme
In this world that we've shaped
Living is being fast,
Or your wounds will stand gaped
Sprint these first years
Then after that you can see your tears
Get your job, have your kids
After that you can take the long haul to the ground.
They'll cap of the lid
You lived your life,
Now onto the next kid.
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I was given the theme, how do you live or how do you prepare for death. I decided to write a poem about the average life of a white American. I'm not trying to be racial that's just what I am and this seems to be the scene played out among most kids like me. This poem is about working constantly and trying to claw your way up social status, as most people do. But also how unfulfilling it is. It's a bit sarcastic but that's the point.