Water

Water

Is life

Is sacrifice

Is the willingness to die

And fight

For your rights

The people

Must stand

For their rights

To clean water

Indigenous

Means first

First to the land

First to drink the sacred water

First

Water heals

Powerful to the touch

Powerful 

Water in itself

Is powerful

And so 

are the people 

who drink it

 

SparkleJessie

VT

16 years old

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  • Dancing girl

    I laugh as she flips her hair towards me

    Her water bottle glimmers in the light

    That is as bright as a sun

    But what is the world becoming day by day

    When they say we cannot inhabit an area together
  • What I see

    The room is shaking for no reason at all

    I stare at my phone

    A glimpse

    Of desperation 

    Encountering the devil on the other side of the wall

    The other side of humanity