Over the summer, our Young Writers’ Workshop students worked with their guest teacher, Ms. Jackie Ramos, to write a collaborative poem, “A Love Letter to the rEVOLution.” The poem envisions revolution as an act of love and a force of hope, calling for unity and a freer, more compassionate future together. Read the whole poem below. 🌠
A Love Letter to the rEVOLution
Dear revolution, one day you’ll see a world filled with hope and happiness, laughter and smiles that lights this climate.
A world where we stand in a circle, not isolation, our silence will be free, we go to fight with our spirit.
There aren’t any barriers for taking action.
The future will dim if we don’t ignite fires.
Our revolution. We are more than fists raised in this air.
More than chants in this street. Your love is spelled in this unique way. Revolution is beautiful.
You are more than just a movement, more than just a saying.
More than life can comprehend. Help us see the love through our eyes, the eyes of the future.
Revolution, you inspire me to dream and believe that love that can make us powerful to create the changes that our world needs to grow as communities and families.
If you could see through my feelings you could understand why we show love our change.
Revolution of love or simply love for the revolution?
We should feel our fears and transform them through inspiration.
Revolution is love, revolution is action, revolution and love is all we need in this world.
Dear revolution, you’re the heart of power and peace and equality.
You hold the power to give justice to imbalance, diversity, and inequalities.
But the People hold the power to start this r/evolution.
When there is revolution, I wanna feel the sun come out.
I wanna feel the love in our hearts so we can soar to the sky.
R/evolution means power and use it to make the change we want.
Every heartbeat is an act of loving rebellion, a pulse that resists oppression and plants roots of community.
The winds of revolution stir.
Change is no longer a whisper, but a roar.
As a community we can bundle up and stand up for justice.
Peace I shall say!
Revolution is nice. It gets you what you want.
It could free you from oppression for the people you care about and bring forth new perspectives.
We fight to end racism. We fight for freedom.
The revolution is a beacon. A beacon of hope. A beacon of power.
A reminder for the people and what we’re fighting for. A ray of light in a covered world.
Dear r/evolution, I hope the people fight to stop worrying about tomorrow’s problems so they can focus on today’s problems so they don’t break their peace with the world.
If we fight together, we can make a better world. A world without wars and with peace.
A world where our future generations will feel safe and free. There’s a hope if we fight together.
Because we love our People, we must seek the revolution.
Because liberation is living and freedom, we must seek the revolution.
We have lived for too long with our spirits crushed and swallowed: revolution, let us sing your hope until the air resounds with peace.
Dear revolution, we must grow and be who we are meant to be. But we aren’t able to because of oppression. And yet that’s what you represent. Change, evolutioning into our true shapes, our true colors. Most importantly our TRUE SELVES!
Don’t let the oppressors put fences around our futures.
Dear revolution, it’s time to do the change of the world. We need to be together and create a new world for our future children.
The sun thumps in your chest. We climb the shadows cast by your ribs. Call it what you want, but this love cannot be caged.
We need a revolution that can create a change to the world. Having a loving community and supportive community fighting side by side can create a change, people who can’t use their voices need us to speak up for them, need us to fight for them.
Dear revolution, love is sacred and it’s meant to be valued. It shouldn’t be treated like a piece of crumbled paper kicked around. It should be a pumping heart being passed around. One day, you’ll be seen in a more bright way, and God will guide you all the way.
The revolution is alive. It breathes and grows into something beautiful for all.
Love is power. With all my love I choose to battle daily. To fight. I must fight for what is right. With love and for love I will be the voice for a community I love.
Freedom dreaming, the rEVOLution is love.
In Solidarity,
Young Adult Writers’ Workshop (YAW)
YAW Family 2025
📸: Stefan Gruenwedel