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Read the following poem Life, written by Lawrence Hoo in 2003

Life

To all the people shopping at the mall
Going to purchase something big or small

Do you really know about our life?
Living where drugs and vice are rife

Let me open your eyes to the life we live
Don’t worry I’m not going to ask you to give

Just listen

As I walk the streets with my eyes wide open
These are the things I see that need to be spoken

Crack heads, smack heads and ho’s loitering on the street
Perverts, punters and police circling the beat

Round and round their lives continually spinning
Can you tell me out of this game who is winning?

Who really cares about all this pain?
Who is really responsible and what do they gain?

If you listen to the news they make it all sound so plain
It’s the yardies that bring the drugs over sea by plane

Have you ever thought they didn’t bring this disease?
Maybe it’s the authorities that brought our community to its knees

But

Could you imagine if we all had the same opportunity in life?
We might all end up happily married with 3 kids and a wife

See these are the things that surround our children day by day
When they go to schools, shops or just out to play

The children have to learn how to survive while all around is evil
How can the authorities say they treat us all the same as equal?