Poetry of the Young

Forgiving the Humans

I have watched over this land for 20 years

What you've done to my land brings me to tears

I fly high enough to where your bullets only graze me

"Zip", the feeling is like you greet death only to say goodbye

The trees no longer make a sound when they fall

They have already cried themselves into silence

Kinda like how you all exhaust yourself to sleep

The willows you can still hear weep

I cry for my prey,relatives and predators

You use the word harvest instead of kill

You and your foreign objects

"BOOM!", we fly, crawl,hop and walk away as fast as we can

We have no power against a man

You smile as you hurt us, what good have you done?

Few of us can out run your guns.

We live like aliens, locked up in cages and tanks.

But I forgive you, knowing there will be a change

Someday,something will get in your way and people's race wont be your concern

There is a lesson you need to learn

But I will wait and watch from the sky for none of you have a birds eye

When that day comes...

My predators, relatives and prey will celebrate

"Kaw", I will scream like your sirens

"Roar", the lions will say like your engines

The turtles will move as slow as it takes for you to reach adulthood

So here we wait in our swamps,grass and trees

An apology we do not need

There is too much blood we've shed in the past century

Just know we forgive you, only because what will be happening soon.