🗿😱My Story
There once was a fear that kept me up at night
Tossing and turning wondering what I'm doing with my life
Coming of age learning of our changing climate-fated curse
Manifesting multi-cascading interrelated crises only get worse
Rolling me in bed over this apocalyptic fright
I once had a fear that kept me up at night
Growing up watching America split at the seams
Both parents on different political sides, middle child in-between
Until my Grandpa inconveniently fanned the sunlit flame deep in my soul
Pierced the gaseous fossil gut-guiling misinformation campaign whole
Reversing my Dad’s teachings from right-wing radio Al Gore roasts
Now with Dad and Grandpa gone, they've all become my ghosts
Whispering vicious cycles of hope and denial: I can't get out of my mind
Lingering like our hamster wheel rat race pitting together all of mankind
Horrified and haunted by the stories we tell ourselves I can't escape
Retelling the scariest of them all: Legacy is the future we create
With this, I feel the voices fill me with ancestral and descendent power
Awakening me to dedicate my life to mass mobilizing before our zero hour
With the world cracking up, calming climate anxiety and ecological rage
Becomes harder seeing systemic cruelty thrive with kids in cages
So I mourn all we’re losing, what the future will take
Look towards what we have to give, a bold battle for all our sake
I once became the dream that kept me up at night
With grief and rage together, I am empowered to fight