2015 – 8th Grade National 4th Place Winner

Christopher Gomez, Florida.

Means of Mean

Violence, Violence, Violence, Compassion
Four to one too bad no one puts compassion to action
Compassion next to violence makes violence the main attraction
Not because it’s morally better, just because it’s a distraction.

Emancipation Proclamation alleviated most people’s frustration
From living life under restriction and segregation
Martin Luther King walked and said he had dreams
Hugo Chavez convinced people he was good, but he wasn’t what it seems
Violence is emotional or physical pain that’s what it means.
The Middle East is being traumatized and assisted by marines.
But the violence scared those adults, kids and teens
All of them trying to be helped, being injected with vaccines.
But one good deed,
Won’t stop their heart to bleed
Their scared the impact planted its seed.
Those moms and dad’s family members won’t be the same
Even if all the guns stopped and came to a tame
Because violence took over their mind and their brain
Now that’s a shame,
Violence is to blame.
One act of compassion won’t change their life
Or the school or the fact that his wife was stabbed with a knife.
One act of compassion won’t change their ways
Of all the brain games being played and mental blaze
One act of compassion won’t change the violent screen
Of terrorizing ambush and attack what did that mean?
Means and Govermentees, and Means and Queens
Yet none know what means mean.

Violence, Violence, Violence, Compassion
Four to one too bad no one puts compassion to action
Compassion next to violence makes violence the main attraction
Not because it’s morally better, just because it’s a distraction.

 

 

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