Have Things Really Changed?

Between the chains and manacles, a young girl, the perceptive mind, murmurs numbers to herself in the street whilst a young boy heightened the hopes of the ignorant citizens, the adolescents wasting their childhoods on unspent pasttimes, the innocents who suffer the relentlessly from blasts meant to cease, the light that dips and waivers under the pressure of the dissolution of truth.

This morning, I woke up to this; Afghanistan: IS gunmen dressed as medics kill 30 at Kabul Military Hospital. I think, I forgot how to speak for a few moments. To show you how I feel, I must introduce you to no one. After 42 minutes of searching, I have found no faces, no one to identify with. “There is a moment when you have to choose; whether to be silent or to stand up.” Behind the flowers and gardens, a young girl, a resilient force, whispers elements to the ground in a room whilst a man exacerbated his morals of the ideals he calls “dreams” , the peace fought as wars, the ignorance taught as happiness. Tomorrow morning, I will wake up to this; Guatemala children’s home blaze kills 19 teenage girls. I can bet, my speech will leave me again.

Those 19 girls are unnamed so far, maybe they will remain this way forever. Nameless faces living in a crowd of floating bodies. ‘When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” But there are no voices. Humans have pillaged the earth for 200,000 years and the Universe has thrived for 14 billion.

In those short, managed years, we have spread destruction in our path. A government claims it fights for only the freedom of its people, yet, they feed us small post-truths through a narrow hole in the media.

Before all the wars we have ever fought in search of justice. We have looked to our ancestors who have fought the very same wars that we believe are for freedom.

Have things really changed? Emily F (Year 10)

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