Our World, A Work In Progress

 
 

Have we become so desensitized

or are we merely rendered mute?

when atrocities are commonplace

and bullets end disputes

Exposed are we to everything

but do we really see?

that the world's become with progress

a corrupt and lawless society

Kindness meets suspicion

you've got to mind your back

women afraid to walk the street

without fear of an attack

innocent babes are slaughtered

all in the name of war

Another twenty years of progress?

see what the future has in store

Young men glorifying gang life

no lofty aspirations do they seek

afraid to raise our conscious voice

we turn collective cheek

Unhuman kind continues

to fester, bleed and grow

the world looks on with unseeing eyes

as we harvest what we sow

 

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