a gaze at the world's state

(an excerpt from my persuasive speech for my speech/debate class...somewhat of an outro)

I gaze at the world today, mouth agape at what is shown…

children born in a cold world where violence, silence and murder roams. And it hurts to know that we give birth to homes that are converted to groves of tombstones and catacombs where the light dims low, a zone where death’s shadow grows, under your nose, to shiver your spine and leave you frozen, with a grasp never broken, a grasp forever choking the life of heroes and foes, no discrimination for those chosen.

Death is a reality, fatality is real and even innocent blood is spilled leaving blood baths filled. Digging early graves at an earlier age fates are sealed, dreams are unmade and pealed, and it seems like time sits still while we mourn and weep for lives unborn, thrown far and deep, six feet beneath the surface of the soil we reap and we collect tears in jars to douse the hearts charred by the flaming breath of death, marked by the starkness and darkness, marred and scarred beyond description, by affliction and pain while it rains the names of victims, the dirge is rhythm is played…slow, chords of despair and anguish grow, emphasized by the ebb and the flow, music played within the key of woe, a flow of melodious moans, harmonious drones, a call to your soul that sends a chill to your very bones. It takes a loss for us realize that we have no hold…over death we have no control…

I gaze at the world today, eyes dilated and widened. Staring into the heightened
times of crimes that we’re fighting. Against the waves fighting, tide s change and remain rising on the horizon, with sword and shields on battlefields colliding.
I gaze at the world today, with my eyes weeping and tearing, after hearing of nightmares made real that keep appearing. Nightmare’s recurring. Nightmares are born. And we’re deprived of our dreams and pried away from the morning…