Time to Act*

A response to the “Haiku This” Hope prompt.

Photo by Kumiko SHIMIZU on Unsplash

Young voices speak truth
Inertial gears grind and screech
We begin to move

Inspired by Greta Thunberg’s quote: “Adults keep saying we owe it to the young people to give them hope. But I don’t want your hope, I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic, I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act, I want you to act as if you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house was on fire, because it is.”