Ruin

by soquiliquayAshland, Wisconsin, USA

Oct 2012 573 Views 2 comments

Ruin

We live in ruin
We create ruin

She calls her a whore
The whore calls her a slut

He defends the slut
And he defends the whore

Hazel eyes turn black and blue
Lips are split
Bones break
The wrong words are said to the wrong people
at the wrong times.

Doctors fix what would not have needed to be
in the chain reaction that is our ruined world.

Anger can be the ruin of an entire world.

If only we'd be willing to hold our tongues
and tell white lies
We would be in a better place, globally.

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Posted: Oct 2012

About this poem:

This idea came to me from my love of the tv show Secret Life of the American Teenager. There's a bunch of episodes in the last season..3? I think where everyone just assumed something because someone got angry and said things they should not have said. It occurred to me that if people would stop shaming each other, stop all the hate, the anger, the bigotry, the racism, etc. wouldn't we be a happier world?

Comments (2)

Ladybee42East Liverpool, Ohio USAOct 19, 2012

Interesting poem and interesting notes at the end of it soquiliquay, I would think it's hard to answer your question based on watching a programme about teenagers. The brain of your average teenager works differently to that of an adult so we can't really base plans for happiness based on what they do. Having said that, what you suggest would be the answer if everyone agreed and stuck to it. But how do you get everyone to hear the suggestion and how do you get them to agree en mass to it?
I like your thoughts here.

mcradloffPlatteville, Wisconsin USAOct 19, 2012

We are two sides of a coin, I wish we weren't, I wish I wasn't. I often complain about the meanness for profit and pleasure. I watch American Idol and the X Factor, not for the good singing, but mainly for seeing the people crushed when they get booted off the show. My teenage years were a horror show. So much negativity, but I didn't help matters by being inactive, playing my video games and eating and drinking crap.