Remember when our parents thought they were going to make the world perfect for us

Remember when the world was going to be safe by the time we were ten years old

Remember when the scary things disappeared because mommy would fix it

Remember when growing up to be President Princess was the simplest career path

Do you remember?

Those days when we went to school not thinking about if we

would be the next statistic for which candles are lit and roses are laid

The times when we climbed our favorite trees and it never occurred to us

that their family would be our next farmfield and the lives we called our forest friends

would be the compost

Turns out our parents tried their best, but they are old and weary now

We have to pick up the fight, and make the world perfect for them,

so they can see their dream completed, and our children don’t have to watch the battle

Turns out the scary things that mommy made disappear, were just lying in wait

Turns out President Princess can’t fix everything

Remember when we didn’t have to worry about it

That’s over now

Let’s get to work