Here is a poem of mine....These are far and few in between these days...I hope you enjoy!

Things need to change, there is so much more out there in this world!
More then any one person can handle, more hurt then any boy or any girl.

We live our lives as though "I'm" the only one who matters anyway.
But those are the selfish thoughts that got us here today.

Everyone is concerned with what can I get, how can I get it.
Who can give it to me and how fast can I spend it.

We are a culture of selfish people and selfish acts,
But criticize others when they do the same, and those are the scary facts.

We involve ourselves in things we will never know of; from sports to wars
But my dear friend on your child's last exam, what was that score?

You can recite to me politics of lands I don't even know
And judge me 'cause I choose to be ignorant and I'm not afraid to let it show.

I'm not a scientist nor a scholar do I claim to be
But I want to know what happens here, in The Land of the Free.

As many people call it, but the concept I still don't understand
Cause every one I know is scared of Big Brother a.k.a The Man.

We can feel sorrow for the Jews Persecution back during the holocaust
But feel nothing for the lives that daily here are lost.

I'm not talking about in a distant land, far away
I'm talking about your block, your back yard and what happens day-to-day

Our country fights to provide homes, money and food for every one else
And leaves our citizens to fight and fend for themselves

Again, I tell you I'm no one special. Just telling what I see.
A country fighting for my rights to live in poverty.

I guess I should be happy to be employed with no college education,
Watching our country grow closer and closer to the times of a revolution!

I don't need to be learned to know what lies ahead.
I guess when the time comes I'll just hide under my bed.

I'm not prejudice and don't knock all white folks,
I mean there are plenty of them who are just like me--FLAT OUT BROKE!

Although, they can't relate to being looked at as though here they don't belong,
The seed of ignorance planted by parents that didn't know right from wrong.

I never qualify for being black and knowing their pain, 'cause I'm just too light.
And yet I suffer the same hardships, struggles and plight.

Criticized by all sides black and white cause I have a seperate language too
But as a Latina in New York this is what I go through.

I'm not asking you to understand me or even hear me out.
I'm just letting you know what's out there and what this country is all about!