TED AFYON COLLEGE / 11-C
The
COMMITTED
What has Changed?
Deniz KILINÇ ‣
The mouth released an intentional sound, Hands learned to touch, to shape, to mound. A spark lit up the night, Before the law, before the right.
A line was drawn with fear and stone. Collapsed when touched by flesh and bone. 1990 saw it fall through, Walls fall the moment people do.
A stone that was never real, Promised a cure to body’ s will. Cause and hope were handed down, To shape the hand that shaped the crown.
Transformation arrived without consent, Not clean, not kind, not innocent. Yet Earth endured, still it remains, So truly, what has changed?
The greatest cities swore they’ d never fall, Yet a conqueror broke what was sworn by all. Oceans were passed and new states found, Chains were named, then torn was bound.
Not gifted not clean nor handed down. Demanded, fought from bleeding ground. Later; one body down, the balance torn, And centuries learned how wars are born.
A man had a mouth full of flame, Whispered lies that carried his blame. She slept in shadow, him in shame, And a girl wrote in her diary what fear could claim.