AN ORIGINAL POEM BY BELLA FAULK
“The Garden” is an empowering, tear-jerking, beautiful original poem speaking out against school shootings, murder, war, and the violence of human nature. It magnifies how us as a society must come together and unite to overcome these tragedies and make a change. This is the new generation of the spoken rebellion.
“and this is what happens, when we fight flowers against flowers even though we are all from the same garden.”
one of the most
remembered
school shootings
was
at Sandy Hook Elementary
School.
.
a boy
riddled with loneliness
and confusion
that when
faced with
life
turned to
taking the lives
of others
and himself.
.
I can’t help
but feel
that they
were
harvested
too early
from
this
earth.
.
this shouldn’t
be our
reality,
.
there are
crowds
around me
.
desperate
shouts
pleading
for
prevention
of preventable
death
.
for the chance
to bloom
.
these are
voices
.
for the
voiceless.
.
this is
the new
generation
of spoken rebellion.
.
a girl who was
deflowered,
murdered
in cold blood
for her
religion
.
her god’s name
bleeding from
her lips
as she
faded
away,
.
she was
eight years old
.
and her name
was
Asifa.
.
she did
nothing
to have
her innocence
and happiness
stripped away
from her
.
thousands
universally
marched for
the weight
of
past prejudices
to slip
and fall
off her
shoulders
.
but
her monsters
were never
slain
.
where did it all go?
.
another
white supremacist
group
protesting and
spreading
false
ideologies,
killing
and washing
away
the bright minds
of bright souls,
plucking them
and replacing them with
robotic
tendencies
to
kill
kill
kill.
.
and yet again
I am looked at
.
as the villain.
.
there’s another
tornado
the debris
thundering
like
bullets,
echoing
in a
war torn
country
.
all for what, exactly?
.
yet
politicians
are still
screaming
at each other
about
where to put
the “refugee scum”,
stomping
on the deathbeds
of those
who died
trying to seek
refuge
in a beautiful
country
with
beautiful
opportunities.
.
and this is what
happens,
when we fight
flowers
against
flowers
even though
we are all
from the same
garden,
.
but this doesn’t have
to be it.
.
because we
can
make a change
and be
a change.
.
and we can
plant seeds
in each other
.
growing with
each other,
not against
or away
.
because
we’re not
as far away
from each other
as we
think.
.
if we just
listen to
each other,
perhaps we
could get
somewhere.
.
imagine the
possibilities
if we listened
and understood.
imagine.
