When you grow up…
By Ellie-May Donegan
We all get hit with that age-old question…
When you grow up, what do you want to be?!
A farmer, an artist! I want to teach literacy
I want to try and save the bumble bees!
A choreographer, scientist, a dustbin man! A professional footballer with tons of screaming fans!
A firefighter, a detective, the first person to live on Mars!! A rapper that can spit some funky bars
I want to be a paramedic! I want to work in visual merchandising making shops look aesthetic!
A princess, a pirate! A dragon slayer! A really famous story teller!!
To have children and to be married to the nicest fella
Living in the UK comes with so many luxuries
Children can go to school for free and sit and discover what it is they want to be
All over the country battered school shoes drag into school
Miss! Why do I need to tuck my shirt in; what a fucking pathetic rule?
Kids are being bombed overseas while in our country they sing their ABCs
Have we learnt nothing?!!
Over centuries and centuries people are suffering
History repeats itself, we need to re-read the books on the shelf
How the English stole vegetables and meats from the Irish leaving them in the famine crisis
Murdering and raping is imbedded in ISIS
In Iraq they are held under a mere collection of psychopaths
The Crusades during the Middle Ages
Led to a series of holy wars to wipe out any competing religions
Three million people gave their lives to prove they were devoted Christians
Vietnam battled against Americans to save their nation
Civilians deliberately targeted and killed
Dying with no significance ripping away all
Innocence
Wars start because a man somewhere claims he needs more power
The kids in Gaza need you in their hardest hour
Think about what you might have wanted to be
Their schools are now debris