Nyx Rodriguez

What is gender?
Women are pink and destined to serve men.
Men are blue, work, and provide money for the family.
Why would that ever have to be the way?

Women are strong.
Women are powerful.
Women create men.
Yet it's WoMEN.

Men have emotions.
Men can stay at home.
Men are caring.
Yet they are told they don’t cry.

Why does gender exist?
Women and men are both humans.
They both feel the same things.
They both can do the same things.

Why put labels on humans?
All it does is create divides.
The world does not need dividing. 
We are all human no matter what label we use.
Human, no matter if you're women, men, nonbinary, genderfuild, or more.
We are just humans.

By Nyx Rodriguez

The clean air is running.
Running away to a world I can’t go.
What of my future,
Will it be there at all?

The predictable weather is gone.
Gone somewhere out of reach.
What of my dreams,
Will the next storm sweep them away?

The clear night sky has left.
Left somewhere no one can follow.
What of my fate,
Will it end before I truly get to live?

By Nyx Rodriguez

In the Future,
What will I do?
Who will I be?
Who will be by my side?
Will I even make it there?

Trees surround us 
but what if they are gone 
The steams and rivers hydrated us 
but what if they're poisoned 
Nature heals us
But what if it's dead

What will we do when there's nothing left
When we can't go back
When our children ask what is a polar bear
Because there aren't any left

Nature is dying and the world is looking away
The world looks to Artificial intelligence 
The world looks to money
The world looks to robots
When will they look at the door they shut

The door of creativity
The door of Nature 
The door of love
The door of community
The door of the animals
The door of the streams
The door of freedom
The door of humanity's continued existence 

Written By Nyx Rodriguez