What I think is wrong with the world.

This isnt much of a song but I had something on my mind one morning and this is how it all came out

I am a lucky one who got blessed with a home
I am a lucky one who’s parents never leave me alone
I lay awake for hours trying to figure out how many others out
There are fortunate enough to feel the ocean at their feet
For too many times have I turned on TV just in time to see another bomb dropped
Another 12 dead in the gutter disposed of like yesterdays trash
Or guns bought to school to shoot up peers
More nameless faces and tragedy stricken families
Just because those kids weren’t determined cool

Girls futures wrecked cause they gave up their innocence
Forced out of homes and pushed into shelters
She didn’t tell her daddy cause her daddy would belt her
Kids selling drugs around every corner shop
Not hiding what they’re doing and all of them running from cops
Daily stories of families just getting by on minimum wage
But why do you care as long as you are getting paid
To you they’re just another statistic on a page

Whatever they say on TV is all now a lie
Honesty in the world is starting to run dry
Crooked politicians hide their crooked smiles
They wave as they say: The soldier did good he gave
All he could for his country and its a shame that he died this way
But in reality they don’t really care he’s just another name to add to
The memorial block, coffins draped in the country’s flag
Disguising it as a patriotic sacrifice
I never thought the stars and stripes would tell lies
Mothers weeping, men trying to understand what she’s going through
They’ll never understand a boy that young should still be at home
Not have his blood tainted across a battlefield

Starving babies forced to eat off the streets
Fend for their scraps no ice cream for them
They don’t get life’s treats, ads on TV telling me to help one now
If I had the money I wouldn’t help one Id help them all
Runaway children living like trolls under bridges
no one to turn to, no place to call home
Divorce shattered families of busy working parents
Who’s children turn to drugs and violence to feel accepted

Single mothers still waiting for cheques
Who have to look into their children’s eyes and admit:
Sorry darling I cant afford this
This is why I worry all night thinking what did these poor lost souls do
To deserve this type of punishment
They’re all just lost in this world full of hate and destruction
While I’m sleeping safely another persons dying
Or a teenager is giving up on life they stopped trying
As one heart starts to beat another one stops
Getting anchored into the ground
As the song “Amazing Grace” sings

Young girls forced into rehab
For eating disorders so absurd
You wonder how someone so young could possibly be that worried
I worry for the younger generation
Who’s there to look up to?
But materialistic Barbie dolls
Who are as fake as acrylic nails
Forced to compete with these picture perfect photo shopped bodies
These poor souls will never cope
Going under the knife at the age of 12
Too young to know what’s best for them
Just as long as they’re accepted in the right clique
It doesn’t matter what they put their bodies through

No marriage should be illegal
For apparently we are all equal
Where has that gone now
We’re not going forwards cause we keep taking steps back
Back to the nothingness, to in humane ways to treat people
The lynching has gone but what goes on is just as bad
Discrimination is around every corner
They must’ve done it they’re black
He must be gay he hangs with the girls
Not knowing their life stories just torturing them with words
You can make lives hell by the things that you say
You don’t like to get judge yet its okay for you to judge everyone else
And people wonder why the teen suicide rates are so high

I have taken life for granted many times
Wished death on myself and everyone else
Not really thinking through how lucky I am
To have many things people don’t
To see things many wont
Now that I see, I am thankful for everyday I am breathing
For everyday I didn’t give up
But it deeply sickens me to see
How much we’ve destroyed this beautiful world
For once its gone I ask you
What will we do?

I absolutely love this! Song or not! It's so powerful, honest and raw! It's very insightful and eye-opening! It's very well written! Absolutely brilliant!