Have you ever been in a forest, and walked around it for a while… and maybe you leave and come back 3 years later, and it’s all gone. I have. I used to live in a rainforest in Brazil. It was the most amazing place on earth, well to me I guess. Or at least it used to be. I am Kahim and I live in Peru, Brazil. I am only 13 years old. One day I was walking through my rainforest and I heard a weird buzzing noise… So I listened. “Buzzzz!” What could it be? Then all the sudden a big Rumble and Snap! I was so curious and yet scared right out of my head. I listened some more. No sound. Not even from the animals. I was ready to sprint as fast as I could.
“Hey! You”! A man said.
I ran as fast as I could, and the man ran after me. He finally gave up and went home after 10 minutes. I ran home crying because I was scared to death. But the next day… I was still ever so curious. So I went back. When I got there… When I got there all of the forest I saw yesterday… was gone. But there was something moving in the middle of the field. Not an animal. Not a tree. What could it be? I slowly walked a bit closer then I stopped. ‘Not an animal… Not a tree.’ It ran over and over again in my head. But a… a human! A little boy was sitting in the middle of all the rubble! I ran towards him and asked if he was ok. But when he got to him I thought if it was a human or not. He was oddly colored. Then he turned around and he was as pale as a ghost.
“Hello” He said
“H… Hello” I stammered. It was strange. He looked like a human, he talked like a human.
“W… who are you?” I asked nervously.
“Jake and I come from the towns around here. Are you from around here?”
“ Yes. But what is happening? This used to be all forest. Living, Beautiful, amazing full of life, forest!” I said sadly
“Oh all this? Oh my! I didn’t know that my Dad did this! I thought he was doing it because… I-I… He never… He told me he made sure that there was nothing living in this forest!” He said confused
“Even if there wasn’t! Your Dad did this? I-I’m not angry at you I’m just… Sad.”
I said as if I just had an epiphany. “Well I’m going to give him heck tonight!”
He said angrily.
“No please don’t. Just… Just try to change it. Just please, please, please, please…
He never really came back. The wood cutters, chopped down the whole forest and my family was taken away.
Now I’m in a completely different world and I can’t find my way home. I just hope one day this madness will stop and I will be free… Kahim Latica was one day freed after the Civil War. His story goes on in history until now, and people still are cutting down rainforests and it needs to stop.
The End.