Q1, Breaktide Productions: What is sacred, and how do you defend it?
Filled with ideas and concepts
You cultivate and isolate
And get it blessed from above
All grown up you celebrate
You hold festivals of a kind
You have music and so much more
Then it gains outside attention
And while you may be apprehensive
You share with foreigners anyway
And soon they find they want to stay
This starts to happen more and more
Until you gain an overpour
But instead of kicking them out
You make more space to flolick about
You spend your days making funky beats
Or sowing fashion made after the streets
You laugh and love and live in joy
You try to spread culture even through simple toys
But then, they start to profit off of it
You yo become somewhat hesitant,
But you stay in your place
Because you thinks its love they display
But the very things they took from you
The weaponize to make you blue
They call it, ghetto, ratchet, hood rat style
But when they do it, they make money for miles.
So now you have a decision to make
And anything you pick will have a price to pay
Whether you let them monopolize what you love
Or confront and decide to take it back up
In the midst of your decision, you notice with horror
That they’re hurting your people for the same things they order
And its becoming more apparent that you were right to be apprehensive
Because when it comes to your people dying, the do not hesitate.
So you try to take back, you invent new things
You keep it under cover to try and prevent a repeat of history
Because you’d rather pay the price with facing endless spite
Then having to pay the price with one of your people’s lives.
Submission by Lyndsey F, 15, of Atlanta, GA, USA for We Have Questions on Isolationship-Journal in answer to Question 1: "What is Sacred and how do you protect it?" asked by Breaktide Productions and inspired by Protectors of Mauna Kea. Learn more about the We Have Questions creative project and this question's topic at isolationship-journal.tumblr.com
