A Search for Hope

We watch as our world burns.
We sit as the earth turns
We look on as the ocean churns.
We listen and try to learn
How to save a dying world.

They say we shouldn't sit around and mope.
We need to stand and yell and have hope.
Walking,
Moving, Running,
Speeding, whirling, Crying,
Holding, Watching, Begging, Hoping,
Alone.

We speak as though others will listen,
We laugh as the tears on our cheeks glisten,
They tell us we need to put our leaders in prison,
But our leaders plead with us to have reason.

Watching and waiting
For a sign that we won’t see
Should we even hold on?