A Letter and Poem

Date: January 20, 2005 at 15:48:22
From: Kristin, [12.75.169.37]
Subject: A Letter and Poem

Dear Mr. President,

As you can see, our world is falling apart, not only governmentally, but
literally. I am sure you are aware of it, but I would like you to see my
aspect. Although this is not the end, it is definitely not the beginning.
Our environment is close to disaster, as is our economy. One by one, our
civil liberties are slowly being taken away, and these are things that every
single person deserves. It almost reminds me of the Alien and Sedition Acts
of 1798, which I’m sure your familiar with. Our democracy is fading, and
soon enough it won’t be a democracy anymore.

I would like to end this letter with a quote that is very true to me, and I
would appreciate it very much if you read my poem that I attached.

“The future's uncertain, and the end is always near” ~Jim Morrison

Thank you greatly, and I am hoping that even though I am only in 7th grade,
I can make a difference.

Citizen of this asylum we call home,
Kristin Jung (Age 12) (4/26/92)
Please contact at:
32 Wyoming Avenue
Lynbrook, NY, 11563
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Life
Slip into a vast dreamland
where it all fades and memories
glisten..
the present and future are the same ,today means
nothing..
tomorrow is to come..and yesterday is forgotten, and
forevermore I will think of you and reflect on the forgotten, and now .the
rules will be broken, because
I am thinking of yesterday, thinking of you, of everyone in my life
This really isn’t a dreamland, this is our life
Forget the past
Forget today
We are the future
We are the ones who will rule the world
And our past will be gone
For after a deep reflection of the long gone
We realize that it was meant to be
And we move on
With a new theory a whole new philosophy
And now we have the whole world in our hands
At least this is what we think
And we think it works, for we are the future, right?
Now we forget that too, for we fall into the corporate way of life, the
present
Because moving on is a way of life
We do not have a choice
Oh, but we do
If only we could find our power
We will not let corporate geniuses take over
We will not let the world fall into a bottomless pit
For the world is ours, right?
As we grow old we will realize what we have done
And what a disaster we created, not only us, but the whole world
We find that we did let the world fall
But in our folly we did not see our wrong ships
Believing the ones with “power”
But we were wrong
There is no greater power
We all have a greater power
We just don’t know how to use it
And the power inside us is lost
For if only we could find it, we could have saved ourselves
Look at the world!
Look at what we’ve created!
Is this really what we wanted?
I would hope not..
Is this really our fresh outlook, our new philosophy?
If this is truly so, why didn’t we see this?
Why didn’t we see this??
The world is falling to pieces and its all our fault!
Our’s!
No one else’s!
There is no one to blame this time
The world is ours, remember??
And when we realize what we have done,
It will be to late
We will watch our beloved earth fall to pieces, before our eyes
We will plead and cry
But there will be nothing we can do
If only we would have realized what we have created, what we have done, when
we were in the act
But we were to intent on our causes and how it would affect us
An overflowing of greed
That we did not see what we had done
And when there is no hope, nothing to do, and no one to blame
The only thing we have left is to find ourselves, repay the earth for its
gracious deed, and apologize

By: Kristin Jung

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