This Is Our World

We live in a world –

Where at a certain time of an October Evening,

The sky is pure blue and clouds look like cotton candy,

Like a movie from Dreamworks,

Where we tie strings to wooden cases

And, dragging strands across it,

Create symphonies.

 

We live in a world

Where we write words with stones

On wood, and ca give each other our hearts

Literally.

 

We live in a world

Where a whole community unites to

Search for a missing girl,

And when we knew her fate, 5000 people showed up in her memory

To run.

 

But

We also live in a world where we had to search

For a missing girl

Because pure evil took her breath away,

But not her voice.

 

We also live in a world

Of Uncle Bens and Talia Castellanos

Where people leave too soon

And we drape ourselves in black

They said, to celebrate their lives.


We also live in a world

Where a white woman is pulled over by an officer

To ask if she is okay

Because her husband sitting in the driver’s seat

Is black.

 

 

We also live in a world

Where children tear at their skin with blades

Because Johnny said they were ugly

Because Johnny had never learned compassion.

 

And yet

 

We can create a world

Where love is love and happiness is not a goal

But a journey.

We can create a world

Where we say hello and introduce ourselves

Before we decide they are not

worthy

 

We can create a world

Where we take a breath and look away from the mirror

Before we decide that we are not

Worthy.

 

We can create a world

Where we listen before we speak but are not afraid to be the voice

For someone who doesn’t have one.


This is our world

And don’t you dare believe that we cannot take charge of it

And don’t you dare believe that you cannot change it.

This is our world

So make it ours.

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