👶👹Kid's Story
There once was a feeling I couldn't quite lose
While dreaming of my future, thinking a kid could choose
Possessed with a thought, imagination trembling wild
Obsessed with the impossible, naive little child
While dreaming laughing playing crying winning loving too
I once had a feeling I'll never lose
Crawling growing unknowing monster under my bed
Leering climate creature in my closet– in my head
Seeing creeping heat and pollution blazing firey denial and loss
Of habitats, species, glaciers, homes, coasts, and cultures across
Earthly horrors we seem plugged into out of control changing
Almost as if older generations haven't done a damned thing
Pragmatic phantasm in every instagram background
Looming slender shadow of anxious outrage unbound
Lost in a funhouse mirror global collapsing capitalist carnival
With terrifying trumpy clowns– get me off this carbon carousel
It's why we're unlearning their way, rejecting their dance
Working to wake others from the same rigged lock step trance
YouTube echoing misinformation, masking an ancestral howl
The same progenal wailing attention economy pull on your soul
So I ditched their digital dystopia, I logged off the forum
I striked to start a new story and become the author
I once had a feeling: I will never lose
This world won't save itself – but I'll choose to