Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Too Advance for our Time


I live in a world where everyone knows everyone's business,
There's Facebook, Twitter, and numerous social websites.

Where children know about sex and drugs.

Technology keeps changing every few months,
Brainwashing us with violence and gore.
   
Money is a MUST have material 

Women are supposed to be tiny and big breasted
And men are supposed to run on lots of testosterone.

Where people who barely say one word get millions of dollars
Well millions are unemployed.

I watch the sun rise and fall every day,
Each day more and more trash being brought to shore.

Teenagers, children being tormented by their parents ill decisions

Where is this world going?

The echoes of shootings throughout the streets,
A mother's cry of her dead sons body,

To those who serve us overseas,
To protect us from harm,

As we cause harm to ourselves.

Where is this world going?

Brother to brother
Sister to sister

As human we all are,

where has our humanity gone?

Poem by Marta Flinn

Seeking Acceptance


The acceptance of one's family

can be the biggest

Sometimes we don't understand 
           
why things are a mess

why it's so dysfunctional

why we need to please?

Family is an interesting subculture in our lives

Why do we push our selves so far?

Why do I feel so ashamed of who I am?

is it because I don't have acceptance of my family?

I seem to find myself in a lost place

cold and afraid

I'm not sure where I am going

But when I reach for help,

I'm humiliated by the ones who are supposed to love me

But are these people the ones who are supposed to love me?

Or is it the group of people that I associate myself with?

I seem to be so close

But yet so far away

I am lost in this mess

I am not sure which way is up and which way is down

Searching for this truth

I can't seem to grasp.

Where is my family?

Poem by Marta Flinn