Name= Rukmini Banerjee Grade = 8th Grade

Age = 13 years old School = Kennedy Middle School

Email = Phone Number = (408)-366-2029

The World I Own

Corruption Running Rampant

Smoke billows though air

People running, homes burning

The world shakes despair

Children laughing, minds pure

Untouched hearts, burn the fuel

Sheltered protected world unknown

Face the terror, hearts torn

Parents, elders, shield child

Growing up, no idea of outside

They see the horror, mind misconstrue,

This is our world, what did they do

Flash, and Arrow fight for the people

Superman and Batman conqueror of evil

Yet here we are, helpless and distraught

Where are our idols

The world is in shock

The answer to their problems is right in front

The children of the world who’s souls have been cut

They are the future, who will heal us all

Take the world back, from the forces afar

Stand together, the future of us

Solve the world’s plight, for we must

Syrian refuges running from their homes,

The people of Saudi Arabia terrorized and alone

The US government corruption contains

People in Africa poor, dying in the rain

These problems haunt us, and the children fear

Yet they stand strong, for will adhere

They are scared and angry, for the world has been kept

But they will solve the problems

To appease the world from its debt

They know the people are angry

Suffering, weak

Yet the children know

They will take back their world for all to peak

This is my world

I will guard it true

The world I will inherit

I will thrive until I do

The world has been broken, from the evil in our earth

Yet the children will stand together

To protect the world of their birth

We are the future,

Leaders not cadets

These our are minds listen not forget

We are the warriors who will fight for you

You nurtured us now, our time is anew

We will guard the world given to us

And fight for the world torn up in dust

We dream of the world where problems are few

Where the hero’s are real and not in a book

We are our idols, and protectors of all

We will fight for the world

We will stand tall

Yet we are not weak, we are not small

We are the children, the future of all!