Covid-Conflict-Climate with personal traumas double
Leave no doubt our world is in big trouble
Divides are growing wider
Challenges are becoming greater
Inequalities are entrenching deeper
Bodies of women, girls weaponized, rights rolling back further
The drum-cry for climate action, conflict cessation beats ever louder
It ricochet off United Nations walls where world leaders gather
It’s in the tapestry of poetry, spoken word reciter
It’s in the brush and colorful strokes of muralist, painter
ARTivism. Conveyed on walls, painted on jaguar’s sculpture
The voices of world leaders and artists echo, efforts redouble
Our world is in big trouble
BUT
There is something we each can do
You plus me—8 billion strong—not few
We have the collective power to pursue
Policies and legislation whether old or new
Pen’s power mightier than sword rings true
To move from words to act, action-on-action accrue
The agency of voice, power of vote—change will breakthrough
To build back better systems, post-Covid debut
Better means just with equity, reaching equal outcome for all, not the few
The divides don’t need block restorative field of view
There’s enough to go around inequalities undo
Challenges we can overcome—political, socio-economic too
Our world is in big trouble, that’s true
But, there is something we each can do
Poem inspired in part by the UN Secretary-General’s address to the UN General Assembly (UNGA77) and by the power of art to ignite activism and inspire change. All photos taken by me.
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