TO EARTH, FROM EARTH

Dear Earth, My children, The livings that I take care for. My future.

I have something to tell you. I’m dying.

I give you enough resources But you are taking more. More than my life can handle.

I’m burning up. My ice is melting.

My coral reefs are turning white. My water is being polluted. And so much more.

You’re not only hurting me, but my sea creatures too.

And worse, some of my children are not recycling. Some of you are littering, Making me dirty.

I’m sad to say this But my time is running out.

Keep in mind, if I go away I can’t take care of you.

I’m begging you, my children. We gotta do something. I need your help. My life is in your hands.

I have been taking care of you For my whole life. So please, Help me for a change? Help me stay alive.

But for that, I’d have to lie.

So, do I do what’s right and tell them that I don’t have one? Leaving myself exposed or to be taken advantage of? Letting them use me while they can and once they’re done, not even pay me. Just place a call and have me taken away? Send me off to a place that I don’t call home. A place that I just don’t recognize.

My parents tell me that I’m from there, but in my mind, that’s not where I call home.

It's here, America, that I call home.

I am an American!