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“Melting Snow” a Poem by Eve Ballard

May 1, 2021 by Luvian Iskandar

Eve is one of the co-founders of Permayouth, a global community of youth engaging in permaculture, [pr]activism, eco-regeneration, and humanitarianism. She was also an active participant of the ReGEN-Nations program. Eve is also a poet who writes and shares her poems related to environmental activism. In this issue of our newsletter, she shares her poem “Melting Snow” which portrays the voice of youth coming together to urge change. 

Melting Snow

The living is losing colour…holding onto faded love?

will there be time to rediscover?

Life is a waiting game…

tick tock, tick tock do we want more of the same?

The oceans are heating up like a fever… 

And I tell you there’s no room for non-believers

The planet is covered by winds of blue

Not blue as the colour but blue like a sad, old, worn out, shoe

Our beautiful complex planet is hurting, alerting and asserting

Alerting us that new perspectives and actions need reworking

How a single word can set the world turning from one moment into the next 

We can’t just sit back lost, fearful and feeling perplexed

We can rewrite a page in our cultural dictionaries

Write a page on change making without quandaries

We can redefine what activism means

Relook at the juggernaut crisis the world is seeing

The world has profoundly changed exponentially

Economically, tech-no-logic-ally, socially and eco-logically 

We are making a global movement, making our messages echo

Changing the activism code from when people loved art deco

Activism is not always about ramming boats

Or tying yourself around a tree in trench coats

It’s about finding your own role to play in this critical time

Using your own skill sets to effect change along with a new paradigm

There is a transformation that is happening

It’s happening from an unsuspecting group that is unravelling

Young people,  the unique generation is rising

Young people  are rising with no compromising

Young people  are the largest generation that’s ever existed

There is 3.5 billion of us rising up tight fisted

The UN calls us “the new global power reshaping the world”

We are changing the narrative on the way people see us  unfurled 

From all around the world forging change in a diversity of ways

Making a global movement inspiring, leading and stepping up to challenges ablaze 

There are no borders, no boundaries that stop the activism we do

Changing perceptions and the way we relate to the planetary view

United to leap forward we have more in common than what separates us

We are stronger together,  so stop waiting for that fossil fuel guzzling bus

If we have learnt something it is to stop procrastinating

What we do on a daily basis is the biggest threat to our race and its accelerating

The beauty of the situation is that we can change and relate

Kicking ourselves now,  so too little is NOT too late

This is our chance to see a shared reality

It’s our chance to declare a stance and a commonality

It’s getting the facts straight that gets us to act and not to wait

Take mother earth into your heart and connect as soul mates

The protection of our future is universal

And it should be anything but controversial

Youth bring insight, a bright light to exciting solutions never tried before

Let feathers perched on our souls and sing a tune of hope to restore

For it is our hope in our soul that resides in our core

To keep rising up, uniting for our earth is totally worth fighting for

For one day I will have grandchildren of my very own

I don’t want to be the one to tell them they will never see snow

About the Poet

Eve Ballard is a young Australian environmental activist and a co-founder of Permayouth, a youth-led community that has come together to make a positive difference in the world. Eve also is a talented eco-poet and shares her poetry at monthly Global Permayouth Festivals and other gatherings where people and leading mentors come together to share ideas on Permaculture,
regenerative, and ecological challenges. Eve lives on a Permaculture property along with her family in the beautiful Noosa Hinterland where she is able to practice Permaculture as a part of her daily life.

Filed Under: arts Tagged With: poem, youth

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