A New World

When people say they’re blinded by the light I didn’t know it could be taken so literally. All I see is white from the suns ray filling my eyes. I can’t see anything and although I want to I also don’t. We’ve been in the shelters for over four years. It felt much much longer though. Sometimes it felt as though time stopped itself. When my eyes finally do adjust I see a sight that’s different. Very different from the polluted city that we had lived in before. Thick patches of grass have sprouted from multiple cracks in the sidewalk. Flowers and other plants take up the surface of what were once roads. Bird’s chirps fill the air with their tunes. Wildlife has taken over the city. Many people scowl some even curse out at the world but I, I just admire it. We had taken away their homes and they had finally been able to take it back. We all crowd the streets stopping to gaze at the new world. The things I had missed about the outside such as the air and plants and animals are all here. In what used to be my home. The home that I and billions of other humans had stolen away from many animals. Vines have somehow managed to grow down from buildings and trees. The once controlled water in the pond has turned into the size of a lake. Ducks swim happily with their babies as if this day is normal for them. I suppose this is a normal day for them but us not so much.

No one has to say it aloud for we all can see it clearly. This is a message to us. That we should coexist with the wildlife in a way where we don’t force them out of their homes. That we should put more focus in finding solutions for pollution and other problems that cause the enviroment harm. This may have once been our homes but before that this land was their’s and that message is what sticks out the most. So to the new world I say, let’s get started living in a new way, a better way.