What I Cannot Bear

I am the Earth. Your cradle, your canvas, your unspoken song.

And I am tired. Tired in ways no mountain can hold, no ocean can cleanse.

I have watched the great beasts fall, the glaciers weep, the skies darken with grief— but none of it wounds me like the sight of your children marching to die under flags they did not choose, chanting words they do not understand, sent by parents who should have held them, not handed them over to madness wrapped in medals.

You have made of them soldiers before they’ve learned the softness of peace. You have made of them tools before they knew they were artists, engineers, philosophers, symphonies still being written.

And all this, because you feared to disappoint the false leaders and the louder lies.

What Breaks My Heart

And worse— you have filled their open minds with names of gods they cannot question, tales of heavens they must earn through suffering, shame, and silence.

You branded them with politics before thy could think, before they could introspect.

They never had a chance to ask who they are because you were too eager to tell them what they must be.

You taught them to obey before they could wonder. You chained them to myths before they could dream.

You lied— and they believed you, because you are their beginning.

But Let Me Tell the Children

Children, my beloved ones, you are not what they say you are.

You are not soldiers. You are not pawns. You are not votes or property, not members of any tribe but the tribe of all life.

You are meant to be free.

You are not born of sin. You are born of stars. Each of you is made of the dust that built galaxies, and carries within it the memory of light.

There is no ceiling to your mind. There is no wall to your wonder. You can grow as wide as the cosmos itself.

You are each capable of genius. You are each born to add a verse to the song of humanity.

Stand on the shoulders of those who dared to think before you: Socrates, Hypatia, Curie, Mandela, Sagan, Franklin, King... not to worship them, but to see farther than they ever could.

You are meant to grow all the way up. Not merely older— but greater.

Great in love, great in thought, great in courage.

What No Mother Should Ever Say

But I confess to you, quietly, with more sorrow than rain:

There are nights I tremble with fear— that I will live to see you fade before me.

That I will outlast my own children.

No mother should ever carry that fear in her roots. No mother should ever watch her children destroy what she gave freely.

So rise now. rise in remembrance.

Live as though you remember where you came from. Live as though you understand what you are. Live as though you were born not just to survive— but to illuminate.

And if you must remember only one thing I’ve said, let it be this:

The future is not written in the stars— it is written in your hands.

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