What Makes Me Sick

To see gang leaders recruiting children

To see many of my neighborhood friends shot to death

To see richness  in one area and to see a concrete desert in another

To see my fellow African-Americans killing one another

To see children dying in schools

To see children with parents who are fools

To see children dying because of a stray bullet

To see innocent people die in the crossfire

To see many politicians are liars

To see that not many people speak out on injustice

To see forests and rich land being robbed of its resources

To see when people promote charities when it is really for personal gain

To see how slowly Americans' rights are taken away

To see social and economic discrimination

To see banks give high interest loans, destroying the nation

To see people in debt for the rest of their lives because they have to pay for education

To see people sit back and take it

To see people in position of power not make a difference

Many things in this world makes me sick

Therefore I will be one to change it.

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