Hear What You Speak (Spoken Word)

By Mariah Sweeney

 

The world was easy to understand when I was twelve

Thoughtless and oblivious to what was around me

My parent’s problems were the only problems that surrounded me

Until I turned twenty

The world began to show its true colors

Heartache AND murder

Poverty and suffer

Like civilians in the mall of Kenya taking cover

Shootings arise one after another

You can’t find a place for shelter

Shooting in elementary schools where the heroes were not soldiers

Let our Government take control

Seduce the unknown and put our phones on hold

No ! Shutdown and fold our dollar bills into their pockets

We the people were told that

Gay marriage is no marriage at all

That a man should marry a woman but a when a man marries a man

In Russia that idea is banned

But New Jersey is taking a stand

For those without a voice to make a plan

FOR EQUALITY

Driving behind the wheel of a van

Saudi Arabian women getting beat up because they banned

Women from driving

Murder Rates in Brazil are blinding

Where is love, has it been hiding?

Behind the books of a school girl

Who was shot to have her voice heard

That girls should have education too

In Pakistan, who knew?

It could just blow your mind

Like the suicide bombers in Al-Qaeda

Where innocent people saw the light of

The Boston fire

Let’s erase the error

But stick to the story of terror

Being wiped out like a natural disaster

Japan, Jersey, Philippines and Colorado

Let us pray

Not for the innocent

But for the ones who we looked up to

The ones who prayed for me and you

Father, don’t do that!

Child molestation is still in tact

But only child pornography does that

Here’s something that’s a fact

We all are born with a certain feature

And that feature is something that is altered

But unless we can discover

That every human has a great gift here to offer

Let us understand

Love lives inside of us

We can reach out and lend a helping hand

Whether you build a house or say something to take a stand

We can remind everyone that love is within

The world was easy to understand when I was twelve

Thoughtless and oblivious to what was around me

My parent’s problems were the only problems that surrounded me

Until I turned twenty

And now I see everything involves me