Poetry competition CLOSED 27th June 2016 11:42am
WINNER
Carpe_Noctem
Carpe_Noctem
RUNNERS-UP:
Beautiful_Enigma
and Jade-Pandora
The ill of living
Could This Be Enough?
Read all about it, again
down there in the corner of your morning paper
ticking along the bottom of the tv news
Another headline in the making
Could this be enough?
Behind the badge
a promise to "Protect and Serve"
Who gave permission to add
"as judge, jury, and executioner"?
Due process with the pull of a trigger
Isn't this enough?
Counting the crimson footprints of
another mother leaving her baby
swaddled in a body bag
lying in the street like a dog
Could this be enough?
Published rap sheets
justify the annihilation of the "bad apple"
Saved the whole bunch, right?
Arms wide
Crucified by public opinion
It's too much
Too many sons and daughters
brothers and sisters
become stereotypes and statistics
Whole generations denied the right to exist
Isn't this enough?
We say their names on social media
Tweet and post in outrage
But what's a hashtag to a bullet hole?
When will it be enough?
I want to scream
I need to scream
Til I open my mouth and realize
I'm already hoarse
Because ain't nothing new under the sun
when the exception is becoming the rule
Isn't this enough?
Could this be enough?
I've had enough
Read all about it, again
down there in the corner of your morning paper
ticking along the bottom of the tv news
Another headline in the making
Could this be enough?
Behind the badge
a promise to "Protect and Serve"
Who gave permission to add
"as judge, jury, and executioner"?
Due process with the pull of a trigger
Isn't this enough?
Counting the crimson footprints of
another mother leaving her baby
swaddled in a body bag
lying in the street like a dog
Could this be enough?
Published rap sheets
justify the annihilation of the "bad apple"
Saved the whole bunch, right?
Arms wide
Crucified by public opinion
It's too much
Too many sons and daughters
brothers and sisters
become stereotypes and statistics
Whole generations denied the right to exist
Isn't this enough?
We say their names on social media
Tweet and post in outrage
But what's a hashtag to a bullet hole?
When will it be enough?
I want to scream
I need to scream
Til I open my mouth and realize
I'm already hoarse
Because ain't nothing new under the sun
when the exception is becoming the rule
Isn't this enough?
Could this be enough?
I've had enough
SHADE
No one is here that knows who you are
You have no door mat or even a car
Forced to focus on the orange or your vest
They seem to manage to look through the rest
Faded and folded pitted and dry
No hand to be holded or a shoulder to cry
In the city un noticed blended with ease
Like a vast green landscape your just one of the trees
Faster and faster year after year
Wishing for signs but not will work for beer
Under the freeway under the stairs
Sometimes on a beach if nobody cares
Someday a condo of cardboard you've made
Someday you'll have it made in the shade
No one is here that knows who you are
You have no door mat or even a car
Forced to focus on the orange or your vest
They seem to manage to look through the rest
Faded and folded pitted and dry
No hand to be holded or a shoulder to cry
In the city un noticed blended with ease
Like a vast green landscape your just one of the trees
Faster and faster year after year
Wishing for signs but not will work for beer
Under the freeway under the stairs
Sometimes on a beach if nobody cares
Someday a condo of cardboard you've made
Someday you'll have it made in the shade
Anonymous
@afriendoftina very nice poem.
