Newsletters 2019-08-25 Newsletter 212 - When The Earth Burned by Nikita Gill “Where were you when the earth burned?” they will ask, and we will explain to them about Brexit and Trump and Fake News and billionaires and corporate taxes and big oil and how it wasn’t just the earth burning, but also Afghanistan and Syria and Yemen and Kashmir and Sudan were bleeding too and the ice caps were melting and the coral reef was dying and the tigers and leopards and elephants were going extinct and of course, so many of us were fighting but the well of truth was poisoned and how no one believed their eyes or pictures or scientists anymore, How does one fight monsters when there are an eternity of them to fight, we promise, we promise, we tried.
“Where were you when the earth burned?” they will ask, and we will hold our hands out, hold theirs and say, “we too, like you, were hoping, praying, wishing… and just trying to survive.” When The Earth Burned, Nikita Gill |