Do You Want to Save the World?
"We watch this world go blind.
Masks cover the bottom half of our face,
Only revealing our eyes,
Yet we watch this world go blind in seconds.
A virus with too many symptoms to detect
Takes away our sense of smell and taste,
Yet we watch this world go blind in minutes.
We hold our firsts in the air supporting a race whose lives matter,
Yet we watch this world go blind in hours.
We fight for our rights against people who are supposed to make us feel safer,
Yet we watch this world go blind in days.
We do countless hours of homework through a screen that tires our eyes,
Yet we watch this world go blind in weeks.
The Earth around us slowly crumbles under society's stigmas,
And we watch this world go blind in months.
Generations from before judge us for how we have treated this world,
Yet we watch as this world will become blind in years.
We watch riots take place in streets
And get teargassed by police officers.
We watch people shrug off the thought
That a virus has taken millions of lives.
We watch people drop out of school
Because online school has become too hard to handle.
We watch everything,
And we receive responses that don't solve the problems.
We watch this world become blind to the problems that it holds,
And we watch as people die for their answers.
It's a mad world where we live,
Yet it's even more mad to know that we may never receive our answers.
We watch.
We speak.
We listen.
We fight.
We try.
But when?
When will our world open its eyes
Our world has become a battleground for racism, selfishness, and brutality. It has become a place where "hope, freedom, and equality" do not feel reasonable anymore. We watch the news in fear of the stories we will read, and we cover children's ears to protect them from the hateful world we have survived in. But are we truly surviving? Our world is a plant that we overwater with hate and leave in the sun to dry up and shrivel. We will watch as this world becomes nothing but a place that people fear. When will people feel safe to walk alone in the street? To get pull over by police officers? To see their friends in person? To be human again? When we grow older, after we have protected this home, what will we tell the future generations when they ask "How did you save the world?" Do you want your answer to be that you just sat around and watched as it burned, or do you want to say that you did everything you could in your own will to save it? Take a breath, and then take a look around you. Does the world you see burn, or does it shine? It is your decision to choose. Because when children come up to your grey haired and wrinkled body, don't you want to be able to say that you helped saved the world?
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