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Save them that you hurt by hurting the world

You’ll kill your only dog because you don’t remember the sound of a bullet like him. The sea rises The sea consumes The sea doesn’t give back You’ll fear a never coming fire after you hear your cousin burnt alive and hide from the smoke you don’t inhale. The sea rises The sea consumes The sea doesn’t give back When you looked at an unfamiliar face and at unfamiliar people and watched their charred skin and face wrinkled and bent from screaming and crying didn’t you think of your own home. Slow reaction Slow movement Slow to help a different home When you looked through your eyes and saw devastation, did you help them, or did you crawl in your bed and throw plastic to the birds to eat in your sorrow? Slow reaction Slow movement Slow to help a different home When the sea rose and the sky fell didn’t you forget such long ago that you learnt of the reality. Did you forget in the following months while eating ice cream from the tub in the welcome of your home about those who lost everything they owned to people like you? The climate moves The climate changes The climate takes as you took from it Who did you hurt and why don’t you know their faces?

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