🐬#PoemForTheDay ✒️by Taylor Fang, Bow Seat's 2018, Senior, Poetry & Spoken Word Gold Winner 🥇 In her reflection Taylor says, "One of my favorite quotes from the novel All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr says: “[the sea] contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening... It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.” 🦈
🌊This vast and vibrant expanse of water has always fascinated me, as I’ve lived in the desert🏜 my entire life. But perhaps this very notion of vastness, of an ocean able to contain anything, has led people to condone their actions by believing that the sea can survive any carbon footprint. In reality, the ocean, as well as the ecosystems and communities that depend on it for survival, are beautiful but also fragile. Amid denials by the United States government, as hurricanes devastate neighborhoods and coastal cities🌴 are predicted to drown, youth have the power to create lasting change and “turn the tid...
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