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A Convention on “Global Change”

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Soka chapter.

So many voices,

Ringing, ringing, ringing.

So full in my ears…

till they bleed world flags…

and drip on the ground simply black.

No coat, no armor, no flag.

Just black.

Ringing, ringing, ringing…

till my eyes see red,

and my throat goes dry…

till debate sounds like death, and words make me spin. 

“ International cooperation”

“ Implementation”

“Initiative”

“ Peace.”

 

Ringing, ringing, ringing…

Ringing in that small room. 

A small room with small doors, 

small windows….

small windows which with we see the outside world.

It is a world of no doors, no windows, 

Actions and death. 

Real lives and real consequences. 

They live the words that are ringing in my ears. 

They live the deaths we throw so easily at the wall.

at the walls of a small room…

and the deaths that echo so casually on small windows…

never reaching outside,

bouncing off to ring, ring, ring in my ears…

in my heart and soul. 

 

We are but a room…

a room of words and ambitions.

Empty words, raging ambition…

Ringing, ringing, ringing.

Ringing on empty ears. 

Good days, bad days… you see it all at a Model United Nations Conference.  This was a bad day. This was the poem of my brief loss of hope and motivation in the concept of mock- global diplomacy. 

Nikita Sukmono is a current second- year studying at Soka University of America in Southern California and is Soka Her Campus' Social Media Director. A true East Coast girl from Connecticut, she's living it up in the West Coast. She is double- concentrating in International and Environmental Studies and plans to possibly pursue International Environmental Policy in grad school...When not crazily decorating her room, finding ways to battle her seasonal blues, or makinf horrendous shopping decisions with her roommate, Nikita is finding ways to help spread Her Campus to a larger audience through social media platforms!