Still We Fight
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This poem is highly influenced by the style and writing of Maya Angelou, because I believe, if she were still alive today she would be in this fight too.
No time to wait for future days
The change is here, that’s right
Yet, you deny our climate wisdom
scorn us, but still we fight
The data is in, no denying it
yet pushback from the right
Our presence seems only to anger you
but undeterred still we fight.
Is it our strength that scares you?
our devotion, our insight?
Your fear of change so shaken
but regardless, still we fight.
Solutions reach before us
our future we’ll rewrite
While many still may doubt us
for our planet, still we fight
We yearn for purest sunlight
blue skies where birds take flight
honey fields where bees alight
and fireflies ignite
restoration in our sites
where forests green regain their height
and children voice their songs forthright
in a cleaner world that turns out all right
for each of those, still we fight
Flora, fauna, survival their right
for youth with dazzling futures bright
we hold those dreams, and still we fight
And still we fight.
Copyright © Fran Delaney-Barron | Year Posted 2023
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