Happy National Poetry Day everyone! Here is my National Poetry Day Truth poem, published last month in Be the Change, Poems to Help you Save the World, Macmillan.
Greta Thunberg
When the whole world is deaf
by greed and by choice,
how do you change things
with only your voice?
It’s hard to be noticed,
harder to be heard,
but she stood up and spoke,
could not be deterred.
What made them listen?
What cut through their lies?
Not the pollution
or the fast melting ice,
not the experts or science,
not hunger or flood,
not the extinctions,
our hands red with blood,
it was her steady gaze,
on our planet, alight,
her desperate calm,
her demand, make it right.
It’s what we’ll recall
of her fight for our youth,
her luminous words
her courage, her truth.
© Liz Brownlee
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