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Jun 04
poem 3 comments challenge: Dear America
fire girl

did you know (take 1)

Dear America

did you know what would become of this world?
did you know what we would become?
how we would transform your land....
build up walls in the middle of humanity?
did you know? did you know? did you know?
are you mad?
would you change?
(if you could?)
yet here we stand celebrating...
being o.k. with this rising of tides and
exclusion of seas.
change.
what a beautiful word.
the one that we owe existence to.
how can we not understand...
how precious our lives are here.
but we must change.
we must become.
we must evolve to thrive in this america.

silly me.
I thought this was a free country.
 
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Posted: 06.04.19
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" to choose to write is to reject silence" - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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  1. Forever young
    Jun 04, 2019

    You being up a great point. If we do not take action soon for climate change, it might already be to late. But the best thing we can do as youths is to spread the word and emphasize the importance of the fact that climate change is real. It is our future.

    "we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible."
    Beyonce
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  1. fire girl
    Jun 04, 2019

    Yes! lots of people do not think about whose future is in the balance. it is really up to us youths to defend mother nature from extinction. it brings relief to hear about so many young people like us who are taking action and fighting for their right to live their lives!
    - fire girl

    " to choose to write is to reject silence" - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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  1. Forever young
    Jun 05, 2019

    Yes!!

    "we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible."
    Beyonce
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