poem

Still Relevant

by Jasmine Reneé Williamson

His loss When it rains out pours No more can we ignore The intrusion The pollution The dying and disease Time to be free To find out the real meaning Keep your head up They say and don't look back But why when history repeats itself And always seems to have a bad rap If we learn from mistakes and grow from disaster Why can't we learn to just ask what's the matter In a culture of hook ups, abortions and babies Is the thought of something real so incredibly crazy How can we learn to get what we had when we all just focus on the things that make us glad To aspire to be better and to do something different we must learn to listen to give and stop missing Missing what's around and off to the side so engulfed in what we see right in front of our eyes A small dark screen with colors and noise A distraction from the world a really expensive toy Girls with no respect from themselves or others It really makes you wonder what's happening with our mothers What happened to the fathers to hold their kids tight And that boy who grew up to be a shining knight The modern family is so incomplete, it's sad that we don't realize and then we see it in the streets People dying, people crying, life flashing before our eyes But nothing seems to matter if its not happening with the elite What clothes to wear and what shoes to buy, the followers, the friends and your number of likes What happened to the days of playing in the streets, making friends on the playground and growing up like beings It's time we come together and glance at the condition Cause frankly it's scary that we seem to lack ambition To be the change we want to see we have to look up Look up to those who lead and listen to them closely The brightest one isn't always the loudest Watch people's actions, not just their words and be an individual stop following the herd
April 2015