To Save What We Have Left

To save what is left is to stay alive-

To save what was torn untimely from our hearts

For culture is life, and without culture we are nothing



For us to die would be to give in

To survive would be to resist

Because to give up now 

Would be an insult to those before us

To give up would be to forget those who resisted

Who kept close and passed on what we still have today


If their efforts were in vain

Because we couldn’t carry the torch

After they held it high even as their arms were being torn down



We can not let that happen

We can’t just survive, we must thrive

We should no longer have to resist

We still have everything we had before it was taken

There should be a fire to stoke

Not a torch to keep lit



But what we should have has never been given to us,

It has always been torn from us

We need to build it ourselves

Because no one but us

Can save what is still left