Global Footprints

Global Footprints

By: Tiffany S.

My neighbor walks across the Sudan desert,
Seeking water for her young siblings,
Heat stricken and exhausted she heads home,
Barefoot she kicks a pebble with her toe.

My neighbor stands in the heart of Afghanistan,
Seeking freedom in the midst of a protest,
Her face hidden by her Burka in fear of being caught,
Beneath her is a pebble, she kicks it with her toe.

My neighbor stands in line in the Philippines,
Seeking medical aide after a deadly tsunami,
Anxiously thinking of what is left of her home,
While standing she kicks a pebble with her toe.

My neighbor, a young child in Mexico,
Seeks a place to play, too fearful to go outside,
Robbed of innocent adolescence to a war of drugs,
She finds a pebble and kicks it with her toe.

I attend school at a local University in America,
Seeking an education that will change the world;
Along my path I find a pebble and pick it up,
These are the journeys I must follow in my path to Global Citizenship