killjoy poem!

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killjoy poem!

So for a class i have, i had to make a reflective poem using the following guidelines:
-Must include a struggle or connection you have with SOCIETY.
-Must include an internal struggle you have had with yourself or your ideas.
-Must include a connection with your culture or history.
*here it is:

I Am a Killjoy,
Living in a society full of heartbreak and lost dreams.
I see people everyday struggling,
Yet our government kicks them aside.
A leader being criticized
While he is busy cleaning another’s mess.
A frail and “perfect” society,
Full of gullible scarecrows in the polluted sunsets.

I’ve felt detached yet a part of this world.
Brewing up a hate with peace lodge in my being.
Forever falling into a pit of deprivation.
I know I will find that place,
A place of salvation and self-acceptance.

But I shall never let myself be degraded,
Just as my ancestors were.
I am a proud Chiricahua, Apache.
Resting on the land of my people,
Which was stolen by the egotistical Spanish,
And destroyed by the Narcissistic European.
As a proud young mestiza,
I live on for the broken,
Beaten,
And the dammed.