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Because of Recent Events

March 1, 2018
By Sara.C2000 BRONZE, West Springfield, Massachusetts
Sara.C2000 BRONZE, West Springfield, Massachusetts
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In essence, our search continues
To find the best solutions to fit the worst problems,
A size two shoe can’t fit a size ten foot.
How everybody complains about the weather but nobody believes in change.
How $20 can barely get a half tank of gas.
How “mental illness” is a given reason for inflicting harm towards others.
How we have to question if an education is THAT important to us.
How some have to choose to eat or pay their bills.
How a nation can create an endless amount of wonder.
Both good and bad
How people used to come here to find a new beginning,
All they find is a place of emotional and economic distress
Iced with destruction of the “American Dream”
What a piece of work is this country
It delights not me,
Though by your smiling you seem to say so.
We have been on the moon but can’t have clean drinking water?
What is this quintessence of dust?


The author's comments:

I think everybody by now has heard of the school shooting that took place in Parkland, Florida. 17 lives taken too soon. On top of that, there is so many other issues that have been going on for a very long time. Nobody really has a true solution to these ongoing struggles, I just want some answers. 


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