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007 | ɴᴏᴛ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ɴᴏᴡ (ᴇɴɢʟɪsʜ)

I don't have the right to vote.
Not yet at least,
But I've always made the effort to show,
To discuss, who's hands where the country will be better off.

I've gambled everything, everything my sixteen year old self had to offer.
Relationships and memories,
Respect and unity,
Just so I can make them hear my voice

Pride is one of human's fatal flaws,
Hiding behind the human mind it flows,
Wrecking every stream, nerve, and vessel
Of a certain stubbornness.

I don't consider myself a patriotic person,
I'd probably leave the country if given a chance,
Never or rarely saw the good in the land I was born,
But I cannot bear to see it suffer any more.

I cannot bear to see the poverty in the streets,
How children cry because of abuse under their sheets.
I've hated the fact that there's so little I can give,
I hate the fact that there is so little change we receive.

Thus, it deeply angered me, when my father himself refused to acknowledge me,
When I talked to him about what's better for the country,
My carefully crafted arguments befall unnecessary.

For someone who wants to see the country i na better place,
It confuses me how he can defend someone who's less that incompetent to lead,
How he can admire someone who's caused a lot of people suffering.
How it's so easy for him to dismiss what happened in history.

I don't consider myself a patriotic person,
I'd probably leave the country if there is a valid reason,
Yet I can't bear to see the people around me suffer,
I do not wish so look upon their distraught faces anymore.

I don't have the right to vote,
Yet I try to spread the correct information to those who can.
So that our future will be in the hands of a true leader.
So that poverty won't be prominent anymore.

I'm sixteen years old,
As of January 7 in the year 2022.
I don't have the right to vote.
Atleast, Not right now.