Dear World,

What happened to your warm hugs?

Blessings from the universe above?

What about that vision that one day we will all unite?

But now…

all there is are disunity and fights.

 

 

BOOM!

The sound the cameras captures, showing images of graphic shootings and bombings.

DOOMED!

If we do not unite together—society will be doomed—which is what we have been causing.

CLAPPING!

Affirming that the ends justify the means no matter what.

STABBING!

Stabbing who we considered our brothers and sisters once.

 

The apathetic world is consuming the nation.

Pretending.

Lying to ourselves and to society by saying, “We are fine and there are no problems.”

Actuality.

We all are pawns in this game of life by disregarding and killing everyone else just to win.

You respond with, “King me.”

Congratulations!

Look at what you’ve won!

A world full of apathy, hatred, tensions, and disunity.

 

Look at what WE ALL created!

 

World,

I’m on my knees,

Begging you to please hear me!

Please listen to what I have to say every boy and girl.

 

Suffocation,

The world’s apathy and disarray is suffocating me.

 I cannot breathe!

Anticipation,

Anticipating on the day that we will hold each other’s hands and become one. Will this dream come true?

Duration,

Crying rivers, floods, and hurricanes until the day that our streams meet as one… we’ll learn how to.

Unification,

A buried treasure… something that’s been undervalued.

 

Listen to me!

Hear my plead!

We need empathy.

Not apathy.

We need unity.

Not disunity.

We need compassion.

Something that we’ve been lacking.

Most importantly,

Open-mindedness, kindness, and generosity.

Hand-in-hand, uniting as

                                                                         One.

 

Flaws, claws, and scars,

It makes me think about who we are.

Who have we become?

People’s assumptions, hatred, and accusations like water in my ear they drum.

pitter, patter,

Why don’t my feelings matter?

Crying, screaming, shouting,

Fear and hatred drives my heart daily, pounding.

 

Dear World,

Why do I feel that I have to hide something that’s a part of me?

Ashamed of what I could be.

Is it that the world is afraid of my capabilities?

Wrong!

SLAM!

The windows of opportunity close,

Feeling the gust of wind hitting against my face,

Rejected once more,

RRRIIIPP! BANG! CLASH!

My heart broken, shot, with disregard, and shattered against the harsh ground like fragile glass.

Was I fool? For falling for the trap?

For going along a different path?

 

BEEPS! BUZZES! CHATTERS!

I hear,

As I walk through crowds of fake smiles and to people that I’m demanded to consider my “peers.”

Like gas driving a car, coffee filling my heart; I’m asking you world, why don’t I matter?

 

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Sings my alarm clock.

I get out of my bed.

 

Dear World,

Today was the day that I realized that I am enough,

Even though I feel like giving up,

I realize that I have a purpose in this life,

Taking up space, consuming this air, just wouldn’t suffice.

 

I am more than just a number, a race, and female.

I am human-being who has the ability to change the world positively and to prevail!

At times like this, you (the world) need unity more than ever.

And I am here to unite everyone all together.

 

I promised myself that I wouldn't be another byproduct,

But an authentic version of the human being I strive to be… something I had to reconstruct.

We are all in this world to be united,

Not to segregate ourselves within groups and be disunited.

 

I am a pebble thrown in the ocean,

But don’t get me wrong… because even being small as I can be... still make the seas have emotions.

I am not an inanimate object that can be stepped over.

It is the smallest, unnoticeable things that allow mankind to rise above the chaos.

 

Yours Truly,

            The Pebble