Have you seen the news today?

More people are dead.

Look at all the blood, the hate

It messes with my head. 

Can we send an astroid here, please?

Give Earth a fresh new start

Look at us, we end ourselves

It’s like we don’t have heart

I am not yet old enough to vote

Nor old enough to drive

But why am I old enough to feel

So very empty inside?

Look, and you’ll see

We’re worse every time

And I’m writing this, for what?

To educate you in rhyme?

Maybe think about it

The wars and the fighting

Look back at your youth

Can’t you see they’re crying?

They sob alone in their beds

Or maybe on the floor

While daddy’s out drinking

And Momma’s speaking no more

A century ago, that was true

And we haven’t changed a bit.

Only our weapons of madness increase

We kill just when we sit

We need a change

Somewhere, anywhere

Anytime a kid gets bullied

All the world does is stare

So, as my final cry

One last breath of my youthlike hope

Please, look around you

Stop sipping your Coke