Second Revolution

Sat, 11/03/2018 - 23:36 -- ReyganC

I believe that this country is at war

Our children soldiers

Fighting on the frontlines

Since Junior High

 

While the students

Are taking bullets

These so called activists

Are focusing on their texts messages

Or I should say tweets

Twitter notifications each

A new declaration

Or battles and separation

 

In the military we are all green

Same side sees no difference between you and me

Yet we’re being viewed as enemies

 

Politicians saying we need to be unique

Yet criticizing the differences

With words piercing like bullet

With the message of not belonging to this country

This melting pot of nationality

Continuing to judge identity

 

Like we are still in the civil war

White republicans holding on to belief from generations before

 

It’s is like we 

are still in an era of slavery

Viewing other people as fractions of a person

Feeling seen as less than

Land of the free

Where there still isn’t equality

And though we’ve made progress

There still isn’t universal acceptance

Their still judgement and rejection

 

It is like there is no opposition 

From politicians 

To our current segregation

Or discrimination

That is so obvious to our children

 

When kids now have to be the ones to make the difference

When children and now generals of protests

When teens are the first to speak

About the inequality we still see

When students have to fight for their safety

Because it seems like the leaders of society

Are no longer fighting for our protection

Instead they hand us weapons

And tell us we are in charge of our own defense

 

It’s time of government raises the white flag

Surrounders to itself once again

Let the next generation 

Put and end to this need for a second revolution

 

We make fun of pageant queens

For being plastic dolls of beauty

That only seem to say world peace

 

Maybe the joke is the fact

We can’t even imagine

Our nation without conflict

We focus on television

And celebrity drama

That we deny the blood flowing in our own backyard

 

Lost lives in the streets

Of our cities

We know violence,

Tired of being silenced

These adolescents 

Are speaking up for once

 

Just like Martin Luther King

We have a dream

That someday

We will actually reach the equality

And the United States

Will feel like a safe place

 

Until that day we’ll Teach our children to live without judgement

Because the mindset of the nation

Needs to stop being split

 

The rights of others needs to be universal

Along with respect of where everyone comes from

Gender, race, religion, sexuality

Until the whole nation is accepting

Of people’s identity

The students will still be battling

Misconceptions and stereotypes

Spending their nights

Dreaming of feeling like they belong

When they’ll proudly sing the song

Of the national anthem

Because they truly believe in this country again

 

I’m tired of fighting ignorance

It isn’t bliss

When we rationalize hate

Until there is change

We will always be struggling

To find peace in this country

This poem is about: 
Me
My community
My country
Our world
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