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Society
December 27, 2021
We create “known rules”
Like men don’t cry
Or don’t show your thigh
Because men will be "distracted"
We talk about freedom of speech
But when the youth wants to speak
We are silenced
We are exposed to violence
We hear of the bullets blistering,
Between an innocent child’s skin
The loud thoughts that are thrown into a trash bin
That pile up until they commit sucicide
The whispers of the victims’ linger within me but nobody hears?
Why? Did they all disappear?
© Nicole R., Lawerance, Massachusetts
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This poem talks about gun violence, and on the "rules of society". It also talks about the youth being silenced. I believe each and everyone one of us has a voice.