TiredBy Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two —
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
(Manually typed from a graphic on social media. Verified with Wikiquote.)
#poem #poetry #LangstonHughes
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