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The Hunger Games Lyrics by Musa Okwonga

iPoems

2013

Truth is,
Our youth are already playing Hunger Games:
We’ve lowered them into the pit,
Then pulled the ropes away:
We have made them work for painful hours without payment
And view their plight as casually
As online entertainment.
We promise them a harsh future of infinite constraints
And then we make examples of those who would raise complaints.
We show them that, so they’ll survive,
They must be selfish brutes,
That they must spurn compassion, and all other such untruths.
Our youth are playing Hunger Games already, that’s for sure:
We teach them to greet backs with knives,
Each other’s eyes with claws -
But thankfully,
There are still those young people resolute
To use their kindness to tear our whole world up by its roots.

About “The Hunger Games” by Musa Okwonga

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