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The Dirty Looking Glass

August 10, 2015
By mendes14 BRONZE, Killeen, Texas
mendes14 BRONZE, Killeen, Texas
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The world would be a better place if people didn’t have to look through a dirty looking glass.

Walking along the path of life, it’s supplied with collections of pain and strife.
People judging each others’ races, spitting nasty words into their faces.
Everybody is diverse from one another, but they still can’t seem to love each other.

I live in a world where everybody seems to only care, about my skin tone, my face, and the clothes I wear.
Just because I eat more and put on more weight, doesn’t give you the right to hate.
My mind might work different than yours, maybe that’s why you filled my heart with sores.
They leave my feelings in the dust, Making me disbelieve in the theory of trust.

If everybody could just stop and see that life is not a game, yeah, we are not all the same,
but that doesn’t give you the right, to take away my power, strength, and might.


If the world could just realize that we can live life, without suffering from pain and strife.
We changed the way our lifestyles were made, the equality of our hearts are starting to fade.

So, yes, the world would be a better place if the world’s glass was clear to see through.


The author's comments:

This piece is about how the world is sort of quick to judge and discrimminate others without understanding what kind of pain it causes. The poem talks about a looking glass, this glass is what the world sees each other through. The world's glass is filthy because of all the discrimination and at the end of the poem it points out that the world would be a better place if the looking glass was clear/clean.


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