We live in a world

With guns and knives.

We live in a world

Full of idiots with ties,

Where geniuses are frowned,

And dummies are followed.

We live in a world

Where lying is okay,

Where it's normal for a kid

To hear five gunshots a day.

People are dying,

People are starving.

While other people mind

What others are doing.

They post on social media

Pictures of their cruise,

Not knowing that some people

Don't even have food.

Our world is sacred,

At least it used to be.

We turned it sideways,

It's become trash.

We let us destroy it

Right before our eyes.

Then we log in on facebook

And blab about their lies.

The planet is dying,

Animals are no longer trying.

I used to think

Only people would die

At their own time,

But too late I realized

That some animals, too,

Drive themselves crazy.

Take away their own life.

Our world is changing,

I don't want it to change.

There's a murder down the street,

A robery across the city.

A few countries up,

A man can launch missiles

In the blink of an eye.

Guns are allowed

Just like violence is legal.

Nobody does nothing,

All we do is stare.

We hear about the horrors,

We see them with our own eyes.

Then we look at each other

And exclaim, "Oh my!"

Then when the shock is gone

We turn our heads down.

The world is too boring

To look with bare eyes,

So we surf on our phones

When there's a whole world outside.

We live in a world

Full of hunger and not peace.

We live in a world

Full of liars and cheats,

Rainbows and unicorns no longer exist.

This now is a new world.

Where magic is gone.

Instead we replaced it with worry,

We replaced it with stress.

But the magic is there,

You just have to see.

Humanity is losing,

We are smaller every day.

But thankfully there are people

Who still smile, still care.

They do what they can

To make a better place.

That's what we

Should all be doing,

Don't you think?

Looking for magic,

spreading the love.

Hope is for all,

It keeps us alive.

The world is not lost,

At least not yet.

We have to fight

For our futures, our rights.

We live in a world

With fighters and hopers.

We are all the same.

Just one big family.

We have to help each other,

That's the only way it'll work.

Author's Note: This is probably my second favorite poem of the ones I've written. What do you guys think?