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Detroit Sestina
A - Detroit
B - Crime
C - Strength
D - Past
E - Future
F - Success
Detroit
Destroyed with waves of Crime
Mustering all of its Strength
To fight the Past
For an Unchanging Future
Where it can Create Success
But where people try to find success
Among the decayed streets of Detroit
There is a bright future
A future with cleaner streets and less crime
A future not held back by the past
Where people follow their own Strength
And where there is Strength
Comes promises of Success
Where the skeletons of the Past
Don't come and haunt Detroit.
Where the only Crime
In not believing in yourself and the Future.
But these promises of the Future
Only come from those who are willing to speak out and make a difference, those with Strength
And those people who stand on the street corners, profiting off Crime
Don’t want to experience this kind of success.
They only want to make a quick buck selling product to the people of Detroit.
Waiting to repeat the mistakes before them. The mistakes of a broken Past.
Whether it’s the Past
Or Future
This cycle of Detroit
Is unable to be broken without Strength
And the small light of success
Is blown out by the gusts of crime
The passage of time has no effect on Crime
it’s always stuck in the past.
Criminals see a bank heist or a drug deal as success.
But crime doesn’t provide a Future.
Nobody is able to come together with the Strength.
To break this decade’s old curse of Detroit.
I guess that we’ll have to wait and see the Future
A future where the people have the strength
To end the curse that started the end. The Curse of Detroit

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I wrote this peice in class for my creative writing class, although i'm not that creative. Thanks for reading