Dear Mr. President - We need Hope

To view the country as an outsider, I can imagine that one would just wonder simply, what's wrong. This country, developed on the concept, if not the action of acceptance, has hit a moral low. Locked in the boxes we call home and the televisions we call God, we hide unable to look outside our window for fear that we will not be able to handle what we may see. Our issues are many. Our solutions, few and difficult, as they mean we must look at the world around us and come to understand the difficulties that we face without falling to pieces.

Dear Mr. President, we need hope. Hopelessness has pervaded the country like a weight upon the shoulders of us all.

Once upon a time we looked to the great wilderness of the US. Our mountains stood tall, our rivers pure, our beaches pristine. But how can we hold on to hope when our mountains are crumbled around our own people and left as scars upon the land. Everyday we crack, crumble and destroy the planet in which we live. Forest we used to play in as children are bulldozed to make way for new buildings and roads or are locked down to be made a for-profit business. There's no where our children feel safe or even allowed to play anymore. No heart of our community to which we can hold.

How can we be a country united if everywhere we turn we are made to fear our fellow citizens, our fellow man? Who drew these lines in the sand?

We need hope. We need to come together again and say "YES WE CAN!"

We are smart creatures, clever with our tools. We are faced with so many "elders" saying - "It's too late, too late" but look at what we have accomplished! We have made it to the moon. We have technology to bring creatures extinct back from that grave. We have the ability to scrub the carbon from the atmosphere and harness energy directly from the sun. We have choices, we have power. We can move forward if we can remove the shackles and return to a place of compassion and of hope. We need to move quickly and we need to be united. And I am so sorry for the job you've taken on, because dear Mr. President, we need hope. And we've placed it in your hands. It is your job to pull this country back together, to say "No" to those who need it and "Yes" to those who will make our future bright.

We cannot lead the world in a technology we haven't even begun to accept. But we can lead in uniting the world and we can lead in change.

Dear Mr. President, lead us in change. Lead us into a future that we can sustain!