Dear Greedy Money Lovers

Sun, 03/16/2014 - 15:09 -- MariaJ_
Dear greedy money lovers Oh man do i got some questions 
Please tell me why our lovely educators teach lessons for our future generations 
But barely get paid enough to feed their wonderful creations
What if the cure for cancer is in the mind of someone who cant afford an education
 
This is to the schools that hold the future in the midst of its classrooms 
Who cant even get enough to have toilets paper for the bathrooms 
What gives you the right to judge my school?
Our test scores are low but those tests are fake
written by people who probably got paid with some good ice cream cake 
Man our future sure is at stake
Because the leaders right now got money on their minds nothing but money on their minds
And a bunch of young activists are sure not gonna make them any dimes
cause if anything we'll just take it and give it back to the people who actually deserve it 
 
Kicking the middle class out on the streets when they were ones who built this city with their own two feet and rough hands 
They say San Francisco has enough money to be its own state
but thats not what i see when i walk down our land.
On mission on third. 
Sometimes i see people going crazy thinking they are birds.
They were probably so tired of this misery they wanted to fly away from this world. 
I wish i could change the fact that money 
rules the space around me
My family, my community
I wish that that green dough
Did not sit upon a gold throne 
I wish money 
could grow as easily as the flowers in my aunties garden 
I wish the seeds were abundant 
and in the end 
they would not wither 
and harden 
 

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