My friend and I wrote this protest poem to talk about teen death in Chicago.  Some of the causes we saw for these problems are poverty, students not going to school, and gangs. In our poem we touched on all of those problems. We also talked about how the deaths are so common, that people are getting used to it and now are immune to it.  We are proud that we were able to portray our message through our song.

Tears don’t satisfy anymore
so I can’t continue to cry anymore
I just wish people didn’t have to die anymoreBang, bang up on the block
Gun shots same as
clock’s
tick tock

We look for our friends in obituaries
instead of year books
young lives cut short
others decided in court

Tears don’t satisfy anymore
so I can’t continue to cry anymore
I just wish people didn’t have to die anymore

loaded it, cock it, aim it, shoot

we don’t have to go to Iraq for war
because our home is a war zone
all you gotta do is look at the corners
check the gravestones

young lives over
before they can begin
either 6 feet under
or locked up in the pen

Tears don’t satisfy anymore
so I can’t continue to cry anymore
I just wish people didn’t have to die anymore

Don’t shoot I want to grow up

it’s no longer cool
to be in school
but it easy to pick
up a nine and commit crime

only one way in and no way out
but people still join gangs
Mines getting twisted up
thinking the only way to eat is to bang

Tears don’t satisfy anymore
so I can’t continue to cry anymore
I just wish people didn’t have to die anymore

Bodies drop like
leaves
fall off trees
forgotten souls
and lost memories

trying to show off
but nothing to show for
killing and stealing
no heart no core

Tears don’t satisfy anymore
so I can’t continue to cry anymore
I just wish people didn’t have to die anymore

walking blindly
thinking close mindily
causing heart aches and pain
tears and blood washed away by rain

the hearts of the parents sore
Wondering will it open another door
lost love ones
to drugs, gangs, and guns

Tears don’t satisfy anymore
so I can’t continue to cry anymore
I just wish people didn’t have to die anymore

They have stopped taking candy from babies
now there taking babies lives
we call this MODERN DAY GENOCIDE

Tears don’t satisfy anymore
so I can’t continue to cry anymore
I just wish people didn’t have to die anymore