A voice and statement



I'm curious once again
How you/the brothers of order
Preach: Trust, Love, Charity, Peace
And condemn the ones that truly need guidance Make good men great
How about you open the gates
Appeal to the rebels
You say your light is fine and mighty
So turn to the ones trapped in purgatory
The mental cell hell that was created
Yet, no fault of theirs
The lineage sequenced
Administered wartime behavior
Lead by example, ye say
No man left behind
But a whole country cries out
From debt and deficits
Poverty and conglomerates
Looking glass must be but of a myth
Or did it backfire once looked in it
You could turn that mirror right around
Look at yourself for being so proud
Pat yourselves on the back
For your charitable tax double come up
While babies lose sleep
Hungry mouths to feed
Broken homes
Traumatized minds
Violence between husbands and wives
Fathers and mothers losing time
Sending most to go half out of their mind
For convictions, celebrities serve on house arrest And sports players charges expunged
Keeps more paying fans, I guess
So many grants to be awarded
While properties unclaimed
Collected on but not reported
Used for jet rides
Long pay to argue about trivial jurisdiction Elephant or ass
Excuse me, but who's teaching the class Underpaid teachers you say
Yet curious why common sense and class are lost It left while you all were cutting expenditures and creating new laws
Raising the tax dollars
Making it next to impossible
For an underprivileged family to ahead
Having to revert to selling drugs instead
The very thing condemned for you all created These are all facts
That needed to be stated

About this poem

I wrote this poem to be a voice for the lower-class, underprivileged. I sent it to several fraternities. Both locally, nationally and overseas. Ripples were made and connection established. However, I hope the ripples wake becomes larger and inspires a wave.

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Written on 2021

Submitted by lynsiechase3 on January 21, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
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Words 324
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 45

Lynsie Chase

Lynsie “Lotus Light” Chase ARTIST STATEMENT In retrospect, my art is a reflection, a process of transmuting negative energy and thoughts that came with being severely depressed and limited physically. My body may try to keep me from the adventures my mind would like to take. Through "Grey Matter", imagination and desire to create in an alchemist/esoteric "psychics like application". Taking energy, intuition, and an elemental approach of mixing different grades of colour/words and material. The chaos of trauma ascended and brought into existence! The fabric of what aided me on my journey out of the darkest corners of my mind. There is never a mindset or planned idea in the beginning. I let it become what it wants to become and then name each piece, accordingly, based on what the symbolism(s) is within each and how it speaks to me. BIO Small town girl moved to the City. At 17yrs old, decided to take it further and set out to be an artist. Experiencing the positive(s) and negative(s) of choices, cause and effect, nature vs nurture, the hills and valleys of chronic illness and life. Unaware of the wisdom she was gaining and only looked at life in a negative light. Lost herself and passion in the pain and forms of abuse. Tired of the life she was leading, knowing she was meant to be something more than just the shell of herself she thought she had become. Called out for help, asking the higher powers at be to aid and take the lead and guide her out of the darkness of her mind. Using art and music, started to transmute the negative emotion(s), thoughts and trauma. The tools she would use were not from the art stores she had used while in college, but from the scraps and hand-me-downs that she had been given or picked up through the years as well as techniques. Turning rainy days into her own forms of rainbows transitioning slowly into the artist she has become today! FOR I AM A LOTUS FLOWER WHO'S ROOTS RAN LONG AND DEEP TO FIND THY PLACE TO BLOOM WITH GRACE `•^~° WeatherRaven Creation more…

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