I don’t understand why they think it’s okay to gamble away our lives on the large scale chess board that is power politics;
I don’t understand why they think it’s okay to put business money and corporation above the lives of both me and future generations;
I don’t understand why they think it’s okay to give a teacher a gun;
I don’t understand why they think it’s okay to let gun culture rage on to a point where I’m a teenager who’s afraid to go to school, the mall, the theater, outside.
I don’t understand why they think it’s okay to allow the opioid crisis continue on ruining the lives of kids, teens, adults…people;
I don’t understand why they think it’s okay to make a human being illegal anywhere;
I don’t understand why they think it’s okay to justify their actions of violence and hate just because their skin is the color of milk and paper and that somehow makes them better than everyone else;
I don’t understand why they think it’s okay to give their thoughts and prayers and then stop caring;
I don’t understand why they think it’s okay to control the body and choices of another human being;
I don’t understand why they think it’s okay to say they’re pro life but continue to provide insufficient sexual education and health services;
I don’t understand why they think it’s okay to blame every problem on our country’s mental health crisis when they refuse to do anything to solve that issue anyway;
I don’t understand why they think it’s okay to fund their political campaigns at the expense of my life…of my future;
I don’t understand why they don’t think my life, my future in this country, in this WORLD, is worth making change for.
I don’t understand, but I’m just a kid…right?