Day 18 NaPoWriMo : Today’s prompt is to write a poem that begins and ends with the same word. Not easy so here goes!
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Respect
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Respect the boys demand,
Bling dripping from neck and hand.
Acting like gangsters pushing everyone around
Out your mouth you make Jamaican sound.
Big man, you think you are
Driving round in your customed car.
Running with the gang hanging with the girls
Your prospect disapearing like swine before pearls.
Harassing the nervous and the older folk
Littering the place with needles, skank and coke.
Never mind the children playing by the swings
They don’t know about needle sticks, aids and things
Peddling drugs and using kids on bikes as runners
Making rules for gangs, becoming knifers and gunners!
Starting young and never growing old
Ending up dead in a pool of blood on the pavement cold.
Mother grieving, says he was a good son
She don’t know the half of what he’s done.
Black hearse carries the boy, all his friends stand and reflect
On his coffin a single wreath spells the one word, Respect.
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