It's too late already

They tell us they are counting on us to fix things

They say that we have a chance

We will be the generation to finally take a stand

We are mad enough, smart enough, and passionate enough to fix the problems that our grandparents, our great grandparents, and hundreds before us have created it

We will be the ones to stop global warming, stop the wars, the fighting, the racism, the deforestation, overpopulation, the extinction rates

But scientists tell us it will be too late, it might be reversible now, but supposedly by 2035 it won't be enough, nothing will

We are children, we can't do much of anything yet

We have no power, but we have all the responsibility

And when we ask for help, when we scream and beg for someone to do something, anything...

We get told to sit down

We get told that we are children and we don't know anything, how can we possibly be more knowledgeable than adults in charge of countries, in charge of the world.

Sit down, go back to your phone, go home, play your video games, go post on your social media, and Snapchat your friends

Because what could we possibly know

About the fires, the rising sea, the animals disappearing, the forests being cleared away, about the disease, the poverty, the disappearing ozone and the temperatures getting more and more extreme every year

And we continue to fight, joining marches and posting information hoping it will reach someone anyone who will do something. Providing information to each other

And we still get told to go home, sit down, shut up, you don't know anything, we get ridiculed, and criticized and laughed at

And still all we can hope is that by the time it's our turn, it won't be too late