IN MY GENERATION

Latonia House

11th Grade • Chicago Collegiate High School

I come from a generation Where looks of beauty is more Important than the educated mind

I come from a generation where everyone focuses on the most pettiest shit rather than looking at the realizations in the world

I come from a generation Where we aren’t one for all But all for ourselves

I come from a generation Where we die in coldest blood Of our own World War

I come from a generation Where guns & drugs are by choice To be lead into a wrong road of voices

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I come from a generation Where our color is the new horror mirror

I come from a generation Where our days are unknown to be numbered Where our months are new but stuck in the same place Where our years of the same problems are reborn

I come from a generation Where dying hearts can’t get a vein of love Where dark souls have no sense of direction of a piece of center peace T’was a drug that turn the body into stone to leave the mind in exhaling sleep

I come from a generation Where all eyes are watchin’ you side to side and from behind to only be taken in front by force

I come from a generation Where we take from our own Hurt our own Kill our own

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But to never die for our own Nor heal to revive our own

I come from a generation Where newborns are unknown to what future/place they are born into Nor about to step in

I come from a generation Where our leaders gives us false hope of words To only still look at things we still see no change in

I come from a generation Where gangs are not the same Where one there were real gangs Who protect our kids, their kids, our people and our streets

I come from a generation Where girls fight over boys that don’t want them

I come from a generation Where we fight for things that is only temporary Instead of fighting for things that will last us for a lifetime

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I come from a generation Where women are justified as hoes by the clothes they wear or dressed in to only be discriminated by body count, to be perceived as easy and so native and by the exposing videos & images by others

I come from a generation Where we die more than before Where tears of rain reign from pain leaves us in more human cracks than concrete cracks

I come from a generation Where they try to take our education ’cause they think they can

I come from a generation Where our justice system is corrupted In the hands of distrustful dirty money To be left in hands of unknown disguised people known as the government

I come from a generation Where we are still not accepted by Our race,

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Our skin-color, From the city, neighborhood, country we live in, Our identity Our abilities Our disabilities And more as the list goes on

But let me tell y’all something My generation might be from hell But that never stopped our so called democracy for a government to keep us prisoned in our own Country as to what I call The U.S.A. Cell But don’t ever judge nor discriminate My people for making it look bad When you had years from now to keep what we had Now it’s just sad we can’t last because we keep repeating years from the past Honest To Say

I Come From This Generation I Stay In This Generation I Live In This Generation This is The Generation Where I’m From

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