Yes, I am tired… but I’m not done yet
Nor, will I ask you to make me forget
My job’s unfinished… not yours to do
But, you woke my fire, so I promise you
While I’m alive we’re going to share notes
Gen to generation we’re gonna dare hopes
We “both” want the same, from age-separate places
Quality of life for all human races
Naturally, I see through my lens of what was
Mankind imperfect, yet manageably such
But that was until my selfishness cost
And, you became heir to the planet we’ve lost
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What stuns me Greta, as a child you refused
To wait for your time…for your turn to prove
You couldn’t trust elders and our condescension
So, you didn’t hold back (your) crisis intervention
We are long since guilty, desecrating earth
Greedily devouring, our natural worth
Soulless consumers of “now” gratification
Despoiling environs… our consigned conservation
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Claudia, you seized, your tribe in your hands
Risked public ridicule to force your demands
Saving your parentals from suicidal egos
Rescued their job… said NO, here’s how WE roll
To a divorcing nation you gave us home making
Healing (y)our family from reckless home breaking
Let’s cease “childish” hate, stop raging each other
Warm up our hearts, @#%*in love one another
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Both of you emerge as (our) redemptive apostles
Calling us all out, as counterfeit models
Your courage confirming that your generation’s
Next-action-ready to lead up our nations
And, if Kellyanne and George make family (their) priority
WE too, can meld differences… ONE family, majority
Take back our America …predestine our great
Show one another how (our) love absorbs hate
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Here’s, yet one more child…emancipating us
Becoming our parent… embarrassingly enough
Thanks Greta and Claudia… our blessed vindications
Saving us from selves, to save GOD’S creations