Collette is my 14-year-old granddaughter. She wrote this award-winning poem for a school assignment. With her permission, I'm posting it in my blog to preserve it for posterity.
The Fight of Our Lives
Humans, a seeming to be biotic figure that has done nothing but bad
They say don’t be greedy but that seems to be a hypocritical statement
Humans have ruined what we are given and give nothing back
The waterfalls drying up not releasing the water of hope that is recycled through like magic
The ground don't change but it does when underneath their is everything in the world that could hurt us
We sweep it under the carpet likes it's a dust bunny on a busy day
But we are talking about our earth here
I say listen to the creature's yelping, crying, dying for help
Needing what we can no longer give because we are too far gone
I stand for what I stand on and will fight for what I die on
We can't give our world a ventilator or life support but currently this is what we need to do
Our world is on its deathbed we must treat it like we do to all these other living things including ourselves
Respecting your mother wishing we could have done more, but we can do more
Somehow a matter of environmental emergency has become a political debate for some rich people to bicker about like two babies fighting over the last cookie in the cookie jar but that cookie represents our entire political system of power
We as people need to stop fighting with each other because we are wasting energy
Becoming a united whole that will go into battle with our heads held high
Coming out with our feet drowning in the sea water we have melted, neglected, infected, and no longer respected
It will engulf us sooner or later but we will sink into it jaws first still bickering about whose shoes look more stylish, whose tie is more tight, and who got the most likes on the picture they posted that morning but we will be oblivious as we always have been and always will be
This is no laughing matter so stop laughing and start doing stop talking and start fighting
And stop crying because our earth is dying
The Fight of Our Lives
Humans, a seeming to be biotic figure that has done nothing but bad
They say don’t be greedy but that seems to be a hypocritical statement
Humans have ruined what we are given and give nothing back
The waterfalls drying up not releasing the water of hope that is recycled through like magic
The ground don't change but it does when underneath their is everything in the world that could hurt us
We sweep it under the carpet likes it's a dust bunny on a busy day
But we are talking about our earth here
I say listen to the creature's yelping, crying, dying for help
Needing what we can no longer give because we are too far gone
I stand for what I stand on and will fight for what I die on
We can't give our world a ventilator or life support but currently this is what we need to do
Our world is on its deathbed we must treat it like we do to all these other living things including ourselves
Respecting your mother wishing we could have done more, but we can do more
Somehow a matter of environmental emergency has become a political debate for some rich people to bicker about like two babies fighting over the last cookie in the cookie jar but that cookie represents our entire political system of power
We as people need to stop fighting with each other because we are wasting energy
Becoming a united whole that will go into battle with our heads held high
Coming out with our feet drowning in the sea water we have melted, neglected, infected, and no longer respected
It will engulf us sooner or later but we will sink into it jaws first still bickering about whose shoes look more stylish, whose tie is more tight, and who got the most likes on the picture they posted that morning but we will be oblivious as we always have been and always will be
This is no laughing matter so stop laughing and start doing stop talking and start fighting
And stop crying because our earth is dying
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