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Tomorrow's Voices Today

Sydney Sonnier: “Unfair Deaths”

By Sydney Sonnier on June 7, 2017 in Poetry

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The beauty of death has me so mesmerized

And those cautions tales to always do right

Do this, don’t do that, society has us hypnotized

It’s like we are already justified

 

Since birth, we were told to follow of parents footsteps

Their language, their food, & their uncomplicated ways

It’s like our path was already step up before we could even say ‘gay’

 

Growing up didn’t make this life easier

Under the influence of common core standard

And our uprising has always been slandered

As if my life looked at me as a bystander

 

As we grow older our thoughts begin to unfold

We start to see the truth that was continually untold

So we start to revolt, as they still kept us blindfold

Because knowing the truth is very uncontrolled

 

The government seemingly has us under their finger-tips

Controlling us with oblivion

As if we were robots with no opinion

Yet, I’m not a docile to these submissions

So you’ll have to see me with this vision

And breaking the tradition

Because I am worth of million

Since I am a girl with her own decision

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Sydney Sonnier is a 16-year-old girl born and raised in Inglewood, California. Her hobbies consist of writing, photography, and taking long strolls throughout the beach. She is currently volunteering all throughout L.A. County through the programs such as Girl Talk, A Yummy Future Inc., and building Little Libraries in L.A. County Parks. She believes that all types of writing expresses one's feeling throughout the world, in which is how she found and began to love her hidden talent of writing.

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