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World stage. Lights are on you. In 250 words or less, what do you have to say?
Ended October 17, 2016 • 10 Entries • Created by Sahara
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World stage. Lights are on you. In 250 words or less, what do you have to say?
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jacob_grant in Poetry & Free Verse
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Hear ye! Hear ye! 

Enough! Enough! Enough! 

Listen up, the world is rough

enough as it is. 

You don't need to make it rougher 

With your hatred and your racism. 

The earthquakes in California shake my heart 

And that's fine. 

It's fine. I will cry with the children whose homes fell down 

like cards 

but i will not cry with those who are shot 

in clubs, in schools, in churches, 

for being black, for being queer, for being in the wrong place at the wrong time 

I will scream with them 

Scream with me

Scream at the populace and at yourselves 

to stop, please for the love of god, stop

put down your torches and pitchforks 

and for the love of god give Flint Michigan some goddamn water 

and let boys wear skirts 

Cry with me when volcanoes erupt and swallow the land beneath them

Cry with me when buildings topple

Cry with me when the little boy trapped in the rubble takes his last dusty breath 

but don't you dare cry with the family whose sun took his last breath with a bullet 

scream for them. 

scream with me and make it stop 

it works for toddlers doesn't it? 

and since being a fucking toddler seems to be the only way to make it

scream with me

scream 

enough. enough. enough. 

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