The City of Lights. Poem/Story

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  1. Dr_Figgles

    Dr_Figgles Member

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    The Buildings with the fat obnoxious business men,
    With all the money and power used solely for greed,
    And for their own benefit these men own all of the important people in the world,
    With these fake public figures in place,
    Only to deceive the public and blame them,
    For the mistakes that they have made,
    The Straight and Narrow street filled with lights,
    That lighten up the dark empty sky,
    With their bright and shining lights covering most of the streets,
    Hollywood Starlet in her limo tells the driver,
    "Hurry up we're getting late for the show!",
    The driver had suffered with the starlets agonizing voice for years,
    And this lighted sky had his mind racing with thoughts,
    They were of the death of him and the young Hollywood Starlet,
    Who would miss the man who's been used by the Starlet,
    When the media will only talk about the late Hollywood Starlet's death and not of his,
    They will only focus on the very little amount of good things she's done for the benefit of just a handful of people,
    It is a sad reality that those poor people,
    Made to mourn the death of someone famous,
    Than the death of maybe a neighbor,friend, or a family member,
    It is a truly sad reality,
    The Driver decides it wouldn't be the worth of losing his life,
    For the death of a famous Hollywood Starlet,
    Till the day he couldn't take her taunting voice,
    And he decided to end his life rather than to be forgotten,
    But in this unjust reality of our world.
    Sadly this is not the case for every person that isn't a celebrity
    A Family of Five living in the poorest part of the City of Lights,
    With the Mother and Father constantly fighting over their own money problems,
    Though neither the Mother nor the Father were to be blamed,
    It was the big business men who were to blame,
    for this family of five's money woes,
    The family thinks that these business men are there to help them,
    But to the business men all they were--were dead weights on the cashflow,
    You see in this "City of Lights"
    This gracious family of five that are happy and gracious for what they have,
    All they are is money in the eyes of these emotionless business men,
    One Day as the family was at the grocery store buying what little they could afford with the little money they had,
    The business men were hard at work destroying the very life of the family,
    Taking the very little the family owned and taking it for their own gain,
    The family not even realizing that their whole world was being taken and destroyed,
    The very things that the family worked so hard to get,
    But the business men so full of greed kept taking,
    Anything that they could sell for a good bit of money,
    The Family still on their day of the town still not realizing,
    That soon they would have nothing,
    No money nor clothes,
    Not even their house was being spared,
    The Business men stripped the house till it had barely anything remaining,
    And so enamored with the thought of a buck they even sold the demolished remains of the family's house,
    Nightime rears it's ugly head in the skies above,
    And as the family is returning from their day on the town,
    They get hit by the driver of the Hollywood Starlet,
    The day where the family sought out their differences,
    Had a day of the town and not realizing their house was being demolished,
    Were killed in a catastrophic car accident in which nobody survived the fatal crash that took the lives of that poor family of five and the sad lonely driver,
    Sadly this tale of 2 groups of people does not end with a happy ending,
    After the gruesome accident that occured that night,
    Nobody even knew that the accident occurred,
    Instead of talking about a family and a one single lonely man,
    Dieing horribly in a car crash that killed a family of five,
    Instead the news decided to report about,
    The Young Starlet that had hired a new driver for her new limo,
    And guess who paid for the starlets new limo,
    The Same Corrupt Business Men who had robbed many family's to pay for their selfish needs,
    The End
    thanks for reading and be sure to tell me what you think cuz praise or criticism of how i can improve in what i love to do would be greatly appreciated.
     
  2. yyyesiam2

    yyyesiam2 Senior Member

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    I always enjoy story poems. My criticism is that the flow was a bit wobbly.
     

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