a half hearted news report

i watch the world with
harshened eyes
and i'm only sixteen.

an eye for an eye
makes the whole world blind,
but sometimes it's the only way for them to see.

quotes spill
down my fingers, across my mouth
like the soft lips of a secret lover.

but when i was told
my birthstone was diamond
i didn't know they came from africa.

call me naive, call me corrupted,
i am carrying
the curse of the damned.

dirty warfare thickens the earth,
and dissensitization spreads;
a resource as vague and necessary as water.

skinny opinions, rare and ugly
but of course the loudest ones
are always heard.

stroke of revenge
in the heat of a match--
set it to the gasoline, and the whole world floods.

bodies, bodies, bodies, bodies...
dipped in oil and
sold for blood.