My Mind Is Like The Earth
Focuses on how climate change and mental health have both become crisis's that are impacting our world and future
My mind is like the earth
It is beautiful, diverse and full of mysteries
I hold secrets from the history I have endured
At first glance, the things I create are beautiful and well preserved
My mind is like the earthÂ
Because no matter how many warnings and scientific charts are shoved in my face
I still get in bed and scroll tic tok for ‘5 more minutes I say
Because this doesn't apply to me right?
If I don’t acknowledge it, it ain’t there
My mind is like the earth
Because I watch as it burns down before turning a blind eye
What's 1 more minute
What's one more plastic water bottle, it can’t hurt
Until you find it inside a sea turtle in the sandy, wet dirt
Our planet is dying
While teenagers have lost what it means to feel alive
Our family is the core of our world where we begin
Yet the core of our world is dying outside in
In the summer we have had record breaking heat wavesÂ
Now all the corpse of those trees we have killed are being flooded with waterÂ
Maybe giving us a chance to rebuild
Or to further destruct depending on how we make the world stuck
My mind is like the earth
Teenagers are slowly losing their glow  Â
The earth is in crisis mode
How can we reverse something that the leaders of the world refuse to change
Until we become the leaders but by then it will be too late
I don’t know how to finish this poem because I don’t know how it ends
I want to write a happy ending in which we turn this shit on 180 bend
But life doesn’t always go that way
So I will leave this one unfinished and see if we can write the ending together
My mind is like the earthÂ
Hopefully we can make them better
Rose Coloured Glasses
Touches on how students may feel with the self-designated stress of academic validation
Since we first learned to walkÂ
We have been taught about magic and fun
Just when we began to talk
We learned how to play in the sun
But as you grow upÂ
That freeing feeling only comes from an A
And those pedestal grades
If you got anything less than perfectÂ
You see no end in sight
Aside from the doom of how to maintain polite
While a boy doesn’t know the definition of personal space
But boys will be boys
It just means they like you
And I realize thenÂ
This is our world
Where teenagers starve themselves to blend into society like a dull bookshelf
If I speak up about these things
I become the nag
Who is seen in the grade as a drag
Even though I just call it like it is
Because I have long ago abandoned those glasses everyone wears like clothes
Those glasses that teach you the yeses and no’s
How they tell you what is right
And what to do in the night
I say live you're goddamn life
Because no makes it out alive
So while you can try to make yourself thrive
Who cares if you get a BÂ
Because that one night you skipped studying
You were out on a bike ride with you're friends
Feeling as though life had no ends
So take off those glasses and think about what is more important than a social status
Because those people can call me all the names they want
If I am living my best life
Doing what I want
Even if that is doing nothing at all on a friday night
Except watching a chick flick with my dog cause it just feels right
Just try to bring back that magic you are taught about when you could barely walk
Because if you can do it when you are 5 years old
Think about what about what the future could hold
Dear Gen Z
Is a message directed to my generation that is burdened with this unstable world. While learning to navigate life we must also learn how to work around others expectations of ourselves and how to cope with this anxiety.
Dear Gen Z
I am sorry
I am so f***ing sorry
I am sorry that the world you know is the one that exists right now
I'm sorry that you know those lights in the sky as a sign of a skyscraper's height
Instead of the glistening stars that you once tried to touch from afar
Sharing your hopes and dreams despite the amount of ambition that they may hold
I am sorry that you spend the prime of your time stuck trying to find a cure to becoming mature
I'm sorry that you will never get to be peter pan and fly away from your troubles starborn to neverland
I’m sorry the closest you'll get to defeating captain hook is to hide in your book on friday nights
As the greatest escape you can make
Where life's adventures don’t thin but only begin
I'm sorry that the people you love most are in pages on your shelf
That you walk by day by day
Those characters and beliefs that you once lived with and lived by
Have to watch as you grow up from the corner of their eyes
As you lose the hope, innocence and magic that being a child holds
I'm sorry that the place you belong will always be wrong since it is only a book
So go on in your life living this repetitive thing that we call reality
Even though many people live their whole lives without finding neutrality
Let alone finding their person or a true calling that does not belong on a page
Even though our whole life is a book
So I say try to make a book that people would want to read at the end of the day
Make a book that has chapters that change on a flip of a dime depending on the mood you have day to day
Make a book that people wish they could be in
Like how you once hoped to be in another ones book
So go to you're mirror and take a look
Who do you see?
Is that someone you wanted to be 5 years ago
Is that someone you wish you could know
So Gen Z I am sorry
I am sorry that the only book and the only world you have is the one that you are living in now
But this don't mean this is the life you will always be
While you may have one book
You have the pen
You are the writer
You have the power
But until that day that you take fate into you own hands
I am sorry
I am sorry
I am sorry