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i hate the weeds but i love the bees that keep me company
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Sep 21, 2020
Sep 21, 2020 at 12:30 AM UTC
garden
The Voices of the Earth I yearn to speak the words that sit on the tip of your tongue I know I’ve hurt your waters, your leaves I’ve left my mess on your shoulders, and weighed you down I’ve taken all your fruit, all your hidden rivers And in return I’ve given you the empty bottles that float in your arms I’ve choked your beautiful dwellers I’ve stolen their homes, I’ve set your trees on fire to make more room for my own I’ve used your fields for torture, I’ve left innocent blood on your land I’ve filled your skies with thick black smoke, and stolen your emerald blues And now you’re starting to break, as I search for another place I’ve denied your sickness, I’ve silenced your birds from telling the truth And now... I yearn to speak the words on the tip of your tongue The ones we can barely hear, because you’re too ill, and time towers over your soul as you croak “Let me live another year”
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Jun 1, 2019
Jun 1, 2019 at 4:46 AM UTC
The Voices of the Earth
I will be black not blue I will be filled with trash I will be burnt and layers of ashes Who are we We are the sky you **** The oceans that you **** And the plants that you **** And we’re not happy And so we beg and beg you Please save us before it’s too late Please save us before we die In silence
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Mar 30, 2019
Mar 30, 2019 at 12:23 AM UTC
Save us
Dear society, I’m mad at you. Your lies, the images of “ideal” vandalized in everyone’s mind, driving them to cut shapes in their skin and end themselves. I’m mad because we were given the gift of difference, the gift of a mind possibly like no other. I’m mad because we did everything wrong with gift. The animal in us still wants to get to the top, the very top of the line because that’s how we survive. By making ourselves stand out. We killed each other and made our families watch. We cut through those who denied our presence with blades and stones. We never once thought about peace. Or maybe we did, but the screaming in society, the dominant voice that led us into self destruction has trampled over the little gleam of hope. I wish I could just be mad at you, but I’m not. I’m mad at myself, because I tell myself I hate that image that every girl follows, I hate that promise society makes that if we use this, our lives will get better. But I still follow that stupid image. I fall for every promise society makes even though it doesn’t know what it’s doing. It’s hard to say we’ve gotten over that image, because we still want to get to the top of the line like everyone else. We take pills to forget who we’re mad at. We take the knife in our hands to distract us from what we so desperately need to pay attention to. We flourish in our dark bedroom, because the cold floor is used to our weight and the ceiling is used to catching our anger as it rises above us and takes over. We’re still following that light whether we like it or not. Why in a world so advanced, smart, emotional, delicate and indestructible are we so blind to what is ruining us altogether? Not by war, not by bullets, but by that image that we look up to. By that artificial light that drives us to **** each other. By a world so driven to getting to the top, that we fall trying to get there.
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Feb 22, 2019
Feb 22, 2019 at 4:18 PM UTC
Dear Society pt 2
Dear society, I’m mad at you. Your lies, the images of “ideal” vandalized in everyone’s mind, driving them to cut shapes in their skin and end themselves. I’m mad because we were given the gift of difference, the gift of a mind possibly like no other. I’m mad because we did everything wrong with gift. The animal in us still wants to get to the top, the very top of the line because that’s how we survive. By making ourselves stand out. We killed each other and made our families watch. We cut through those who denied our presence with blades and stones. We never once thought about peace. Or maybe we did, but the screaming in society, the dominant voice that led us into self destruction has trampled over the little gleam of hope. I wish I could just be mad at you, but I’m not. I’m mad at myself, because I tell myself I hate that image that every girl follows, I hate that promise society makes that if we use this, our lives will get better. But I still follow that stupid image. I fall for every promise society makes even though it doesn’t know what it’s doing. It’s hard to say we’ve gotten over that image, because we still want to get to the top of the line like everyone else. We take pills to forget who we’re mad at. We take the knife in our hands to distract us from what we so desperately need to pay attention to. We flourish in our dark bedroom, because the cold floor is used to our weight and the ceiling is used to catching our anger as it rises above us and takes over. We’re still following that light whether we like it or not. Why in a world so advanced, smart, emotional, delicate and indestructible are we so blind to what is ruining us altogether? Not by war, not by bullets, but by that image that we look up to. By that artificial light that drives us to **** each other. By a world so driven to getting to the top, that we fall trying to get there.
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lahat daw ay pantay-pantay sabi ng mga balatkayong nakaupo sa silya ng salapi, ngunit naguguluhan itong batang isipan, lahat pa ba ng ating gawa ay pantay sa mata ng Maykapal. biyayang ipinagkaloob Nya sa atin, biyayang unti-unting nasisira, puso'y lumuluha sa nakikita; ang may sala, yaong Kanyang kawangis. Kanyang 'kawangis' pa ba kung isalita? kung mga gawa na abot langit ang pinagkaiba.
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Feb 11, 2019
Feb 11, 2019 at 8:43 AM UTC
save the earth
We do not own the earth      no one does           it gives shelter to many lives               lets the mother nature rule the way. The consequence of humans breaking the rule countless times the balance is disrupted It is killing the earth slowly affecting flora and fauna. Humans may try to find another planet to disrupt try to pollute other spaces with their selfishness Taking advantage of Earth's kindness, leaving behind the unrecyclable waste The disaster is set to come And the destruction will be worse. Save the Earth now let the life grow.
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Apr 22, 2018
Apr 22, 2018 at 9:18 AM UTC
Let Life live
I love to photograph the wild things in the land If it weren't for the finned and clawed creatures We wouldn't understand the technology in our hands Sonar is what we use to get a glimpse of pre-born babies We have sonar from dolphins and bats and yet we scream, "Rabies!" We wouldn't understand infrasound if it weren't for the elephants But we only see their ivory, not their intelligence Tigers and leopards are born to be trained assassins with their patterned camouflaged coats But we make them our trophies because humans need to gloat We owe omega three's to the schools of fish who gave us healthy brains and hearts But instead we fill their bellies with plastic and tear their reefs apart Savannas and forests are turning into deserts because of climate change But we insist it's just a theory Who cares about polar bears anyway? Yes, I love to photograph the wild beasts with fins, claws, and tails Because I'm afraid that someday future generations will ask, "What was once a whale?"
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Jan 19, 2018
Jan 19, 2018 at 6:06 AM UTC
Photograph the Wild Beasts
There I sat under an unknown tree A place so cozy and amazingly free With a tired soul I looked around And saw the beauty of nature's ground How can something so fine and astounding, be withered and ***** with color vanishing? The once elegant scent of fresh flowers blooming Turned into a dumpster of our wrong doings I want to see how it was before, again Back to the days when nature was sane To when I was still able to see them The sea that sparkles like precious gems Here I sat under a shade A once green shade, that now has fade It used to be cozy and amazingly free That one nature, I am dying to see
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Aug 18, 2015
Aug 18, 2015 at 8:22 PM UTC
Under The Shade
The night sky was a piece of art, sketched By a thousand eager caresses of the wind and Painted with tender brushstrokes in the many  hues of dark blue, sprinkled with white sand. There she sat cross-legged, bare arms trembling with Cold (anticipation) --the earth seemed so far away Suspended on a canvas of concrete hundreds of Feet in the air, metal bars in decay Lights dying, fumes dissipating, horizon Fading--Skyscrapers but a silhouette  In a backdrop of gray (the silence felt wrong, somehow, Like fine wine on a picnic mat)  So she closed her eyes and imagined-- less gray, more blue, The smell of petrichor, and the humming of birds, and leaves  glistening with the sheen of morning dew But she opened them again-- Saw prison bars, and she realised,  All along she had been listening to a lonely Melody her mind had devised... Painting an impossible picture.
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Aug 5, 2015
Aug 5, 2015 at 10:46 AM UTC
Impossible picture (white tiles smiling silver)
come reverence of the mothers soil hacked and drained away by the descendants ego plundering and breaking in their conquest of their hearts to fill the eternal emptiness killing in the name of purpose the mother Gaia is decaying as we pay no mind and go thru our day she bleeds eternally bearing the pain and scars of humanly hate she cries out in pain sons and daughters listen do not continue this way i supplied your way of life is this how you repay please don't do this anymore my body is beginning to break  but the fires are already lit the pyre set the funeral for mother Gaia will be one to never forget for without Gaia there is nothing and without us theirs nothing to be missed
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Jun 1, 2015
Jun 1, 2015 at 1:19 AM UTC
Earth Day 1974
Beneath Bog bodies I lay The only patch Innocent, untouched My friends have Changed The harm done cannot Be undone I watch my Fellow brethren become As corrupted As mankind And I think That I will be gone too Not too far From now
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Jun 18, 2014
Jun 18, 2014 at 10:13 PM UTC
Unearthed