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A World
in Pieces
by Nadia Radwan
We say we strive for peace when our world is in a million pieces.
We’re in a cycle of con昀氀icts that never ceases.
War after war, bullet after bullet devouring the skin of the innocent.
We live in a world where societies to each other are belligerent.
Bombs fall like tears from a sunless sky in Sudan.
A girl begs for bread in dust-blown Afghanistan.
A Palestinian mother wails over her child who a bombing he did not survive.
In Venzuela, citizens of basic human rights are deprived.
They say Arabs are barbaric,
And anyone who’s undocumented is Hispanic.
Blacks are seen as lesser, always inferior,
And East Asians as quiet, never superior.
This belief system is nothing more than mental locks.
With them, we place everyone into a stereotypical, bleak box.
There is prejudice built on di昀昀erences among our nations,
Making us feel better than others, and engul昀椀ng our humane relations.
For peace to prosper, and war to end,
Our strength is in our union we should comprehend.
We must place great value on human life, and have an open mind,
So that a world full of tranquillity we could together entwine.
Nadia is a runner-up in the
Poetry category for this year’s
Teen Writing Contest.
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