POLITICAL Poem: Security, by Angelina Schumacher

Growing up, playing in the streets
Soccer with your friends, who’s gonna win?
Only problem is homework, no motivation
Want to get outside and just have fun.

Getting older, playing some kinds of sport
Part of a team, working hard after school
First crush, first kiss, first relationship
Feeling excited, so mature, still innocent.

Graduating school, grades okay, future awaits
Having a rough plan, studying and partying
Cause that’s what’s university about, right?
Getting to know yourself, finding out where to go, what to do.

You finish university, celebrate your degree, happy
The next day you watch the news, a war close by
Everything gets more serious, future insecure
Will the violence reach us, what can we do?

Sharing posts on social media, visibility, awareness
Nothing changes, people fight, every day a new horror
Then they start talking, rebuild the army, old strength
Mandatory military service for the younger generations.

Fear, uncertainty, never learned patriotism, only shame
How should I fight for this country, not even believing in it?
Feeling unwelcome, politicians discussing women’s rights
Not waving the rainbow flag, friends I’ve known for life facing deportation

Politicians come and gor, telling lies until they get cancelled, dying rich
Shouldn’t care about them people say, news ones going to replace soon
Problem is we voted for them, we let them reign, fighting like little children
Wanting security for themselves, “us”, not realizing majority of their people’s excluded

Giving my life for the cause, the greater good
But if the young ones die, the ones responsible for change
The only thing left is the old white men on the top
Violence can’t bring peace, only loss, hate and revenge

Remember humanity