I can't breathe

Written by Lea Geschwinder

“I can’t breathe”, she screams.
Institutionalized wildfires
fueled by political agendas.
Burning through her lungs.
Suffocating the whole planet.

Lush green turns into
Dust.
The future of our planet crumbles
to ashes underneath the hot breath of
ignorance, egotism, and right populism.

“I can’t breathe”, she screams.
But no one hears her
in the midst of irrelevant tweets,
cute cat videos,
and burning
churches that are more important
than the lungs of mother earth.

“I am dying”, she whispers
on her last breathe.
And we’ll follow.
Just like Romeo did Juliet.
Eyes closed.
Unaware.
A suicide mission.

“Did you see Kim K’s new Instagram pic?”,
someone asks me on the train.
My throat closes up,
sweat is running down my spine,
raging flames of anger
eat their way through the forest of emotions
that was planted in my stomach.
“I can’t breathe!”, I scream.
But no one hears me.

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