Alex Gomez - Another Statistic

This entire existence is violent,
Yet the media will remain silent.
Darkness overwhelms the vastness of light.
Cannot anyone cease these pointless fights?

Underdeveloped, a group resistance.
Why battle forth with so much persistence?
Territorial and desensitized,
We commit horrid and atrocious crimes.

Just a teen without a father figure,
They pull me into the larger picture.
Pressured into a lifelong agreement,
How was I unable to foresee it?

Indestructibility unified,
I’m foolish enough to believe such lies.
We amount to society’s scapegoats,
Degenerates who kill to stay afloat.

Perpetually imprisoned, I stand.
This inescapable lifestyle, so bland.
I am another statistic tonight,
For the bullet pierces me, and I die.

Alex Gomez

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