In the year of 2025
People will die
Hearts will shatter
Promises will be broken
Lies will be told
Some of us will never get to grow old
Women will be abused
Their oppressors will walk free
Children will live in fear
Of our right to bear arms
Wars won’t stop
Bombs will continue to kill
Sponsored by our taxes
Hundreds of thousands of animals
Will be tortured in slaughter houses
New year
Same world
Is our society worth fighting for?
What are we celebrating
If nothing ever changes?
About the Creator
Martyna Dearing
Martyna Dearing joined vocal right after COVID started in April 2020. Since then she got a few Top Stories, republished her book "Green Card Marriage", and self-published a book of poems titled "Loved, Death, and In Between".
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I completely agree! For years I have said that celebrating a new year is useless (and that new year's resolutions are bullshit because they usually don't stick around long term).