a rising leader of a nation kathy jett no kid you know was invited to the twenty fourteen united nations climate change summit in new york to speak about how the marshall islands is on the front line in the battle against rising sea levels the marshall islands and compass is more than two million square kilometers of ocean i mean it's the united nations these are world leaders from all over and it was the first time that i was able to share something that i was i cared about you know something about the islands. and what she shared was a poem about climate change dear much of a poem addressed to her infant daughter who are a seven month old son rise of gummy smile you are bald as an egg and bald as the buddha you are thighs that are thunders shrieks that are lightning so excited for bananas hugs and our morning walk along the loop. dear much of filipino i want to tell you about that lagoon lady lounging in the gloom lounging against the sunrise men say that one day that lagoon will devour you they say it will not the shoreline to at the roots of your bread fruit trees gulp down rows of t