Dark Poetry by Cody Dickinson

New American Dream

Another child died tonight.

Someone committed suicide.

A girl was raped on the south side.

Four boys were killed in a gang fight.

Are things as bad as they seem?

Are people really that cold cruel and mean?

What pleasure can there be,

In watching someone scream?

Has this become the new American dream?

A young boy at school carries a gun.

The same boy shot his friend just for fun.

A father was caught molesting his son.

AIDS is infecting everyone.

Families are thrown out into the street.

With no place to go and nothing to eat.

Everyone is looking for a new way to cheat.

The system now is so easily beat.

All for money and none for all.

We've all been set up for the fall.

Everyone watched the crumbling wall.

And now we've built one twice as tall.

Another child died tonight............

by: Cody Dickinson