School Books, POEM by Chase Morris

Genre: Society, Political, Life

School Books
by Chase Morris

Deafness and Blindess
Race and ethnicity
Country and age
All have become factors of how public school systems are made
Manhattan is 3 minutes from The Bronx
Two different worlds
Two different blocks
School girls in Colombia are dropping out cause they’re pregnant
Babies having babies
Too young to feed it
Disabilities make people lesser
Then what do you call Helen Keller?
Rockefeller
Nike
Adidas
Rebox
These kids are using garbage for the floor of their homes
This world has been put in a lock
Jungle of poverty
Cause of celebrity wanna bes
1 good hospital
93 workers
1000 people come in daily
Some people cant get treatment but everyone needs it.
Playing in the muddy waters
Calming the fathers
The daughters back
But she got caught up in prostitution to put clothes on her two year old child
She ended up dialing the number to heaven to replace the hole in her heart
Cause she had no money to meet marks needs
Now hes in foster care
3 people work there
No sanitation
No ceiling
All damn-nation
You see…
Cities have been affected so deeply that education just starts the spark
Just these cold hard facts cant help their hearts
Their struggles are deeper than the sowing of your sweater
Sway your emotions to feel what i feel
Notice the pain in their blood because its real
And the half bag of doritos you throw in the trash
Could be used to sooth the starvational deaths
Inhale my exquisite teachings
And become the apprentices i know you all can be

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