When I Grow Up

Teacher:Ok class, ok everyone settle downeveryone settle downum, as you all know we've been workingreal hard on our school's essay's to get them donedoes any body have theirs to read fristSammie:Mr.Evans my essay is readyTeacher:Ok everybody Sammie has the floorSammie:When i grow upI wonder if people will be more afraidTo cry then they are to dieWill I be able to see a rainbowIn a smog-filled sky?Will there be any trees alive?If not how will the plants survive?Will the internet have a website atwww.lifetimeairsupplyWhen I grow upIf I got bored and had nothing to doAnd me and my son built a canueWould water that use to be blueBe so pulluted it would give us the flu?Will a thousand dollars be enough for a shoe?Will I have to be like you?Letting money make a decisonfor everything I do?When I grow upWill the existence of dolphins and whalesJust be a story I tell?Starting with Once upon a time...Ending with Where did we fail?Will adults be the hammer or nail?Will Schools be next door to jail?Will the truth be illegel to sell?When I grown upWill anyone be on the newsFor anything besides killing?Will those drug dealars stillBe standing in front of my building?Will they ever learn how to love?Or stay afraid of the feeling?Will TV and music videosStill raise America's childern?When I grow upWill innocent kids still be wrongfully touched?Will students come home from schoolIn a bulletproff bus?What if childern had no one to trust?That would hurt me so muchAnd I wanna be happy when I grow up