Day 331 - Tears of a Generation

Someone began to weep from across the sea

And the tears began to rain down on me

The green and gray clouds began to bruise

The sky who has lost all its happier hues

Yet light peaks out in the misery

On the horizon is a new spree

One that is spreading education

Across the small and even the great nation

We have had to weep for a generation

But starting tonight we will weep in elation

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A note from the Poet:

Today World AIDS Day and this post is in honor of that. This post represents the hope that in 2015 not a single child will be born with AIDs. This post represents hope for a healthier world, with less poverty and disease.

Day 163 - Gross Excess

Too much is never enough

To keep us living in the rough

The chip, the scratch, it was too old

It has been far too long since it was sold

These thoughts plague us into wanting ever more

But watching such behaviors we ask what for?

The music sounds the same from each

Blasting or humming, it has the same reach

Still the same tune and melody

So what is it that we crave, honestly?

The new, the hype, the shiny beeping, buzzing toy

Should be in the hands of every American girl and boy

Or so scream the signs and advertisements that choke

Our society so heavily we can no longer revoke

Our money or insane shopping spree games

Forever trying to buy ourselves the names

That we build up, or hope to in our lifetime

Lost often when we wasted our prime

But you can hopefully say you see progression

A moving economy during our recession

Still I admit we could easily live with less

But then even I, participate in the gross excess