Violence

I am Ulises a 9th grader from Oakland. My poem is about violence and how there is abusers that kick out the people that were there before them. My poem also describes the homeless people’s struggles.

Violence is Homelessness

Tents in the streets people in there wishing for a better future

People in the tents waiting for money to come in but  Its fewer

So after all the poor people living in the tents

Will be waiting for the next abuser

Or for the rent to keep rising

That’s the thing that will keep surprising

Violence is rent increase

Loss of money will eventually lead you to homelessness

Sometimes I be seeing

White people

Walking their dogs in the night

My momma told me to not be out at night

Cuz it’s dangerous

Why are white people roaming the streets

Have they not seen that there is people in tents

That are waiting for their next abuser

And that it’s them that will cause them

To do something like

drugs

Because they can’t handle the pain of not having money

Stuck in the rain

So drugs for them is the way

Kids not getting raised properly

Guardians cant see the way they raising their child

Since they need the money to cover the pain