Cold+World

“Cold World” By: Ananya Subramaniam, Anjali Wadhwa, Brooke Lockwood, and Becky Cardinali

A hundred years from now, it is a new world, One in which the science of genetics Is used to determine one’s place in life. Those with superior genes rise to power; People divided into genetic castes, Freedom, religion, love, there is none.

Hope for the lower castes? There is none. Pushed to the fringes of the high-tech world, A test at birth determined low caste. Families ripped apart by genetics, There is no intermixing of power. Luxury contrasts bland, rancid, frigid life.

Not all have the same quality of life. In low castes, literacy: there is none. As wealthy as kings are those in power , For the low, a dark, pungent, moldy world. The top could cycle down due to genetics, The bottom: a groaning, wailing, sobbing caste.

Joy is not set in birth to a high caste; Cycling of classes assures retained life In lower classes with poor genetics. Splits prevent love’s eager call -there is none, Not a trace of sweet thoughts enter their world As their souls are crushed beneath high class power.

Granger Wells, a man with no power, His fate was to be in the middle caste. He questions and abhors the cynical world And curses his destined, ordained life For which solutions for him are none Because of his predetermined genetics.

First-rate, like a queen were her genetics, But scandal! Lost was Amelia’s power. A lover in his life, Granger yet had none. Granger and Amelia share a caste, And right before them unfolds their love life. Together, rebelling against the cold world.

Based on genetics, each a part of a caste That dictates their power, and controls their life Having none, they desire a new world.

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