Ripsime

Just Imagine

Just Imagine…
You woke up one morning and…
You were fat instead of thin
Short instead of tall
Dirty instead of clean
Imagine you woke up with your body
All covered with blood with no clue
To what caused a horrific scene

Just Imagine…
You opened your eyes with full of ignorance
Instead of common positive intelligence
Picture yourself waking up with common sex diseases
Like HIV and AIDS and with no given hint
To who was on your defense

Just Imagine…
We had nothing, but peace
Instead of hate
More students instead of soldiers
A lot more diversity in the LAPD
Instead of racist pigs who are giving us an embarrassing rate

Just Imagine…
Waking up one morning
And realizing this world has eliminated every lie
Picture the rest of your life to be told
The whole truth, nothing, but the truth
So help you god
Would it burst you right open and make you
Ponder to why…
…Why we sometimes strive to live a perfect life
Why perfection took over a typical relaxing day
And made it into young teens
Cutting their skin with a knife

Just Imagine…
Waking up with no paparazzies outside your zone
Imagine life with no tabloids
Or nosy people not leaving you alone
Picture this world with no history of suicides, wars, or genocides

Just Imagine…
Yourself a German, waking up next to a Jew
Imagine an Armenian happily traveling in Turkey
With no signs of feeling a tad blue
Imagine if the hatred between
The Tootsies and Huts in Rwanda never existed..
Or still waking up with the thought
That Nu-Ju from Virginia Tech is just a weird kid

Just Imagine…
Waking up one morning with the thought
Of no government lying
Picture this world with affordable gas prices
That'll make you smile in case there's a rumor of prices rising
Imagine life with no discrimination
Of love, race, and religion
Think about how nice it would feel like
If gay people had the same rights without a negative conclusion

Just imagine …
If life never had a purpose
And we were just robotically functioned
To act a certain way
Do you think you'd have the same mentality
And haphazardly follow the same paths you trace today?
…Seems like this world is coming to an end
And not from typical global warming or mediators 
But from this sick, fucked up society

That has us like wires, but with nothing to bend

WORDS BEHIND THE POEM...

If you're one of those who think the life you're living in is "PERFECT", }
you have no interest in other distractions besides your own, and nothing
ever can come between you and what you're in?..
(THINK AGAIN)... you might have your nose up high, now..
but you never know... one day... JUST one day..
GOD might prove you wrong and you might wake up
on the wrong side of the bed.

ABOUT RIPSIME - My name is Ripsime Martikyan. I’m Armenian/Greek but have lived in California ever since I was one years old. Through out my whole life, I’ve been involved in many activities. I’m an athlete, an artist, and a writer. Writing has been a huge part of my life. It has taken me away from many negative situations. It has taught me to be someone that I never thought I was. Through my writing and in general, I’m a very open minded person. I'm not so typical (in fact) i haven’t really shook hands with anyone like me.

I have a very good sense of who I am and what I want out of life. I learn from every experience and try to never regret anything I do. That's what makes me an even stronger person now. I'm such a dreamer, it gets sickening. Even if I'm down, optimism is always my way of getting through things. I’m naturally a very nice person and I love making people laugh.