Alphia Sheriff
10th grade
If you do not know our youth are struggling and
I do not know our children are struggling
They will perish from our neglect,
leaving only us and our future
to reap our consequences
If you do not see our brothers and sisters
Being shot down because of their melanin
and I do not see the blood that pours from their wounds
They will perish from our neglect,
Leaving only us and our future
to reap our consequences
If you do not hear the cities crashing
From rising waters and
I do not smell the smoke that fills our air,
Increasing by the second
Our lands will perish from our neglect,
Leaving us and or future to reap the consequences