A/N: I never really got into the Hunger Games series but we read in in school and had to write a poem about it. This is the poem i submitted and i edited it a little and put it on here. Sorry if it's not that good, but this is my first try at writing a poem. And my first time writing for the Hunger Games fandom. All the little awkward quotes are there because i we had to make literal references from the book...yeah. By the way, I don't own THG.

THE HUNGER GAMES POEM

I am, so I am ill.

And consciousness has no pill

that can anesthetise its side effects.

But would you take it if there were such pill?

Do you think or do you feel?

I ponder on it over silence, have you?

If you did, you'd break down too.

For there's a Capitol behind each Cornucopia,

and a "Seam" behind your utopia.

Say goodbye to all your wealth,

and your good health

for life heads always towards death

I often question our worth

though I still try to embrace the earth

that birthed me,

because I too am part to blame

but how can one not hate this stupid game?

"Here's some advice, just stay alive"

But how?

Look at us now.

We kill out kind, and feed on life,

and still we rapidly multiply

with resources wasted and energy drained

is it worth all of the money, and entertainment gained?

We bite off more than we can chew

while others have nothing to spare.

And then we say it's okay to brush off the problems,

all because we said a prayer!

We use religion to justify hate

by falling on our knees and asking God to please

"help us serve this religion of peace!"

by starting wars in your name, and picking fights

and still we call ourselves divine!

When the Sun finally bursts, what will we leave behind?

Just regret, lust,

pain, and stardust?

Or can we stop the madness now before all's gone?

Can we undo the damage done?

"I wish I could show that I'm not just a piece in some games"

that one day we can live up to the name

as the "Pale Blue Dot" that creates art and conquered space

But can we stop our detrimental ways?

Suzanne Collins wrote only facts,

The Hunger Gamers symbolize our hurtful acts,

or violence, inhumanity,

poverty, and insanity

This is not a fiction, this is us!

Perhaps the world is under this pill

as we constantly heal our hearts by filling them with lies

to block out all the horrors and cries

of those living in hellfire

Are you on it?

Is your vision of the world distorted?

When man opens his worldly eyes

He will finally realize

the terror in his ideal

and he will let the Games begin, for real.