Take a stand

grades are getting low, the teens are getting high. that 12 year old is pregnant and her parents wonder why. a first grader is swearing, a third grader has been raped. just take a look around you, isnt the system great? who isnt faded these days, teens are sending nudes, kids are getting beaten, the teachers see the bruises. no calls for help are spoken, teens are smoking weed, young girls are cutting, this isnt what we need. the marks of taunt and yelling, parents are divorced. that 14 year old is drinking beer, this cant get any worse. a little girl has killed herself, nobody seems to care. another kid has been expelled for a stupid dare. but it needs to change. our world is officially broken. its time to take a stand, your thoughts need to be spoken.

I do not take credit for this poem,
all credit goes to my friend Brooke Moran