GRAND Magazine - Summer 2024 - 25
poetry
The world is weary
BY NOAH ROLLEY
The world grows weary,
Of the state of its inhabitants.
The constant stream of hate and
vehemence
Continues to grow its rising disdain.
A web of hurt people hurting more
people,
Worldwide pain spread with the twitch of
a thumb.
Information constantly twisted, lost, and
ignored,
A corrupted, corrosive game of telephone
played through telephones.
Good people gone bad, extreme, and
violent.
Moral values thrown away; moral voices
silenced.
The culture of communities spreading the
hydrochloric voices
Decimating logic and assimilating established
goodness
Where is the empathy, the kindness, the
compassion?
It seems to have vanished from the
human heart.
Replaced by anger, fear, and suspicion.
As if peace and harmony were simply a
mirage.
25 GRAND SummER 2024
The spiders of the world craft
trapsA
world wide web of pain;
when their prey is swiftly
snapped up, ensnared in their
falsities,
It's unknown what they gain,
the disdain ever increasing.
Some spiders aren't converted,
changed, or
manipulated,
Their hate is not injected but
created from the get-go,
they're the origin.
They make the hate, they
like the hate, they spread the
hate,
And what do I hate?
How they create more of
themselves.
I've seen it firsthand, a good person, a
close friend.
Toxins spread through them; toxicity
spread through them.
Never seen them try to fix what they did,
never acknowledged it.
Ended up cutting ties and I've always
regretted it since.
It's shocking how we've taken a gift so
grand in its scale
twisted it so much, buried its purpose,
crushed its benefits to shale.
Scroll and see a cooking recipe and a
death,
Not out of the ordinary, no reaction,
maybe it's time for a reset.
We need to find a way to break the cycle.
To find common ground and work
Noah Rolley, a rising junior
at McDonogh School in
Maryland, excels in creative
writing and witty puns.
Beyond academics, he pursues
passions in simulation
race car driving, fencing,
and blacksmithing
towards a better world.
To reach out across the divide and build
bridges,
Not burn them down because of some
idiot's favorite idol.
We cannot let the spiders spread their
venom,
Put a lid on the well of malice.
Nip the problem in the bud,
No more people progressing pain.
It won't be easy, the world is weary, and
it won't happen overnight.
But we gotta start somewhere, before
the poison touches our hearts.
For the sake of ourselves, and the
world, and our future,
Let's strive to be better, do better,
and love better, take this gift,
and soar to new heights.
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