Try to Care
A poem written by poet Brenna Cummiskey
Try to care
Remember the winter days when your windows would become frosty?
Creating a blank canvas for you to graze your finger making an erasing picture
Remember the days where there would be five feet of blanketing snow covering the whole town
When you and your siblings would run and faceplant into the soft sleet flapping your arms back and forth
Remember the days where you would have never ending snowball fights
Trudging through the powder beneath you without feeling cold at all
Because what you remember most about those moments is not the sheer shiver of the ice below your feet
But the peacefulness in your heart knowing that you are safe, living on a planet that wants you to be here
Try to care
Remember the summer days where the little crawly lady bugs climbed up the branch
Marching in unison, enjoying the sunshine glistening on their spotted backs
Remember the days
Where you would swing on a rope and splash into the lake below
Plummeting deep down
With the serenity overtaking your body for those transient few seconds
Remember when you would pile three kids onto one skateboard back to back and roll down the street
Screaming with bursts of laughter
Swaying your heads back and forth with a smile so big it encompasses your whole form
Try to Care
The future is becoming ever more dangerous
Weather is presenting itself on the extremes
And some day, kids may not be able to experience the sheer joy of going outside
Of building snowmen
Swimming in a lake…
Try to Care
About this world
About the childhood you experienced
This world is on fire
Natural Disasters are becoming ever more prevalent
Climate Change is taking its toll on our planet
The fish are hovering under the remaining reefs
The Arctic is being thrown inside an oven
Nothing can survive under oil
Under a broken ozone layer
Forests can not easily recreate themselves
Species cannot come back from extinction
Try to Care
Selfishness is the combatant of change
If not for you
Care for the future of this planet
Care for the future of your children
The future of many generations
Care for the millions of species that need your help
Instead of focusing on how to escape
Fleeing from our own planet
Why don’t we focus on prevention and healing of what we already have
Try to Care
Try to Care
Try to Care
Brenna Cummiskey is a senior here at Mead High School. She loves creating meaningful artwork, volunteering with animals and jamming out to Indie music. Brenna wants her writing to emphasize and spread important messages to benefit the school as a whole.
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