Amber Skye Rose

So what do you want to do today?

Oh, what to do, what to do!

I woke up this morning, head filled with ideas,

Today I will finally conquer my fears!

I’ll learn how to bike ride, or maybe kung fu,

Or maybe I’ll even go to the zoo.

Or maybe I’ll go to the beach and tan,

Perhaps I shall encounter a trapped merman!

I bet he’d be there lying in the sand

But on second thought, I think today I will conquer solid land..

I know! I know! I’ll go for a really long walk.

I’ll become a track star! Or just play with some chalk?

I could make graffiti art, and explore the city,

Ooh! I could go shopping and make myself pretty.

Yes that’s it! I’ll dye my hair!

So whenever I do go out everyone will stare.

Actually though that’s a long term commitment,

I could just get my teeth whitened so they’ll glimmer and glisten?

Or am I feeling creative and want to write stories,

I’ll go down with Shakespeare in all of his glory.

But I think I might rather watch art today,

so maybe a movie or even a play.

For that I can act, learn a new monologue,

or learn how to sing an find the most perfect song.

Oh who am I kidding, I know I can’t sing,

maybe guitar? and learn all the strings.

Ugh! All this thinking’s exhausting! 

I could go for some food? 

Just stay on my couch  cause it’s practically noon..

That’s not a bad idea. 

I finally have a clue,

of how I’ll spend my day,

doing what I do.

Something appalling

“We allow the cycle to continue.”

What advice would you give your younger self? A playlist:

What would you give the person who has everything?

Dear Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Bloomberg, Donald Trump etc,

    Congratulations! You are all billionaires; with four out of the five of you belonging to the Top 1% of our country, and the fifth being the head of it. Your wealth is beyond admirable and I truly can’t imagine being in your shoes, nor can the other 99% of our country’s population living in your waste. 

    With the Black Lives Matter movement finally gaining the attention its deserved for years, I just wanted to check in and see if your egos are all doing okay? Can I get anything for you? I mean I know you have everything you could possibly want in life and more, and even if you didn’t there’s absolutely NOTHING stopping you from acquiring it but seriously are you sure there’s not anything I can do for you? 

    No? Okay then, well let me offer you some perspective as my parting gift. You all were born with the privilege of being white men in a white patriarchal society. You have won the draw of life and have never had to worry about being persecuted for your race, gender, or sexuality. Your combined net worth is $372.6 BILLION! or, $372,600,000,000-wow that’s a lot of zeros, you go you guys! As previously mentioned, you could pretty much buy anything imaginable. And with that much money comes a whole lot of power, as I’m sure our pal Donald here can verify. 

    What’s that saying though? “With great power comes great...” Selfishness? Entitlement? Exemption? No, no, no. That’s not right. I can’t quite put my finger on it but I’m sure you boys know. After all, you do control so much of what goes on, right? I’m sure you do it well. It’s not like you lovely folk would continuously turn a blind eye to the issues we face and continue to live in your own bubbles. It’s not like you all are complacent in a system that solely benefits you and keeps you in the Top 1% you’ve grown so accustomed to abusing your station in. I’m sure all of you have donated to the political movement our country is fighting for today right?

    No? None of you have done a single thing but fight against it? None of you have spoken up with anything acknowledging the masses of people crying out for reform and help? You seriously mean to tell me that you filthy rich men think it’s okay to continue on like this? Oh! Nevermind everyone, false alarm. Jeff over here donated $690,000 to the Australian Wild-fires earlier this year, his good deed of the year is up, we’ll talk to him in 2021. It’s okay if he re-made that money in 5 minutes, it’s fine, we won’t worry about where the other 144.9 billion of his is going. I’m sure he needs it to raise his four children. 

    I guess I’m writing to you men for nothing, you clearly truly do have everything you need.

                     Luke-warmly,

                              A.

P.S. if I could offer you anything in this world BESIDES perspective, it would be poverty and hardship. Maybe then you’d take into account the meaning and value of individual human lives and not just your own. 

xoxo grow up!

I definitely could’ve made that longer with all of the corruption these figures create and represent but I prefer satires to be short and sweet so that they don’t get too repetitive.

What happens at 13 O’clock?

what happens at 13 O'clock,
what an interesting & fascinating thought.
does reality cease at this time of the night,
while the fae people play and dance in the light?
or does all motion stop for a second or two,
and we’re all unaware as the moon gleams blue?
it's a glitch in reality, an alternate time.
where everyone’s happy and the brightest stars shine.
oh maybe, just maybe, it really exists!
and we’re blind to its magic, caught up in that or this.
but let’s say that we try our hardest to see
that time when the clock hands strike thirteen,
and for a moment tonight we witness first hand
that whimsical place, that mystical land!
when our cities turn to forests and our souls can roam free
to sing with the wind, and dance with the trees.
to feel perfect peace in that glorious hour,
to see a world as beautiful as the prettiest flower.
I hope that one day I experience it too,
this heavenly moment, this marvelous mood.
but for now, what an interesting and fascinating thought,
to sit and ponder what happens at 13 O’clock.

What is your final form?