Your World

This is a poem that I wrote two years ago while I was in college. It's about an outsider from another world viewing our world:

ENTER A WORLD

Where a homeless man sleeps in a dark alley

and has to share his bed with rats and roaches

Where a poor child runs through the street in dirty torn clothes, barefooted.

The only way that child can get food is

by stealing apples and oranges from the fruit and vegetable supermarket.

Where a infant lies on the sidewalk with its mother,

its tiny body composed of nothing but bones.

Where a poor woman is so thirsty, she has to prostitute herself

and suck dick for a diet coke.

Where losing your job means

No money to pay rent, no food to eat, and no place to live.

The only place to sleep is in a cardboard box next to

the house you once lived in.

Where a homeless man begs for a quarter

and gets walked on as pedestrians pass by in the subway.

From Africa, Russia, India, to America

Where no charity is big enough to feed the whole world of the poor

and house the millions of homeless.

SEE

Dope fiends and drug dealers in the ghetto

buying and selling drugs from morning to night, winter to summer, life to death.

Hoodlums smoking weed in front of five year old kids at the playground.

A newborn baby born high on crack.

A young man injecting himself with heroin

and enjoying the hot intense feeling of the drug flowing through his veins.

Groups of young people at a bar drinking ten glasses of gray goose

and then driving home unstable, unbalanced, unsupervised.

Another person killed by a drunk driver.

A trail of crack pipes leading you from the urban to the suburban.

Addicts going to Rehab and complaining that it’s a waste of their time.

ENTER A WORLD

Where young women show their breasts for beads

and have it filmed on camera.

Where an orgasm is as important as money.

Where teachers have sex with their students in the classroom..

Where Catholic priests act as pedophiles.

Where a 10 year old child discovers a porn site on the internet

and asks his mom “what’s a cunt?”

Where a teenage mother has seven kids by seven different men

and doesn’t know who the fathers are.

Where a young woman has to prostitute herself to pay her tuition.

Where celebrities purposely make sex videos

and are shocked when it goes public.

Where men like men, women like women, penis on penis, vagina on vagina.

Where cheating spouses and sex addicts drown themselves in pleasure.

Where diseases are a result of doing something that feels so good, but yet so bad.

Where AIDS is a dictator.

SEE

Soldiers being attacked by snipers and terrorists.

Missiles being launched, machine tanks firing, and M16’s shooting

right near civilians.

Teenagers going to school to kill, not to learn.

Gang members fighting with other gang members over territory.

A school girl being kidnapped and raped on her way to school.

A old man being stabbed in the heart for his wallet.

Rapists, murderers, and other felons confined and isolated

from the rest of the population.

A criminal being executed on death row.

Koyaanisqatsi.

Your world, not mine.