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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

the world

The world
Is falling
Murder
Corruption
Greed
materialism has taken over the roots of our potential
Natural resources
Dwindle
As we spend and spend
The world
Keeps crying
The natural disasters are fits of rage
Fits of mother nature
And father is shaking his head
Corruption in every government of every developed nation = corruption in the governments that are controlled by modern day imperialism,
I love the USA
I would live nowhere else
(Well maybe Europe) lol!
But the USA has been losing touch for a long while
The world is telling us all something with its fits of rage
Education
Government
Society needs reshaping
Into what we all say we want it to be
But we never act
We analyze and throw the world away when our goals are reached
Partisan efforts instead of crossing lines to find solutions that plague our government
(It is getting better?)
Everything is divided
society has divided itself into the haves and the have nots
Corporations have helped but mostly
Society can change
Or stay the same
Society controls what happens (the people-but I think we forgot)
Somewhere we lost sight as human beings.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

today

Today I woke up to a new day
I had dirt on my face but I still went forward
Yesterday I saw what could have been a bad life
She was all alone walking with a bunch of kids in tow
There is probably more than one father out and about in the world
Not giving a damn about the outcome of his children's lives
I see what I could have been in the young ignorant girls attracting men
for the rong reasons
Flaunting their bodies representing no respect for oneself in the truest form
Today I saw that my future is bright and my mind is brighter
The knowledge I have obtained thus far in life
Is enough to get me through until the end
Yet I cannot and will not stop obtaining knowledge good or bad
Knowledge is power my Uncle once told me
I have never forgotten those powerful yet short words
They have affected my entire life
I strayed, I made mistakes but I am here
Fulfilling a path that was laid out for me
It has wound through and around every avenue and river that life could flow through
I now know that there are consequences to choices, good or bad
There are consequences to feelings, good or bad, especially when a thought and theory often follow the feelings
Today I realized that knowledge can be a factor that determines how much success one can obtain in their lifetime.