
Yhzekel Kahsai
Program Leader
Through love of nature and dedication to environmental regeneration Yhzekel joins the Forestr team. From cleaning up garbage on the freeways to developing concepts and leading projects using a mix of innovation and STEAM principles Yhzekel works to develop projects that will become the roots of Forestr’s growth.
I am currently embarking on my final year in high school. I am also wrapping up my time with the BSA becoming an eagle scout in Troop 409 an all black troop located in Oakland, CA. With my years of childhood behind me I realize it is my time to leave my footprint and give back to Mother Earth who gives her all to me.
Mother Earth
A rose from concrete is a beautiful sight
However, a tree rises from nothing but soil & rain
So through your turmoil & pain gives comfort to the most beautiful lives
Branches stretch wide birds come to chirp & sing through the morning cold
Night arrives critters come from far & wide to find shelter in its hollows
Roots run deep then comes leaves
detoxifying the air battling the pollution your car exhaust brings
Is it wrong for me to think pollution runs through our minds as well
Sit back and ask myself
How can life be detached from Earth without knowing that it’s costly
All the damage we have done i’m sorry to tell you that it can not be healed
When your sons and daughter ask to see magic of the polar bear or the stripes of the tiger
Who gonna be the one to tell him I don’t think you ever will
Daddy? Mommy? Were they magic or a fairytale
Will you say it was selfishness and in our own greed we could not be overwhelmed
Or Will you say it was ignorance and it was too late when we realized by hurting others we hurt ourselves
I cannot lie sometimes I lose myself in these city lights
Somebody told me the stars is the brightest thing
they light up the whole galaxy so why is it that they drown during the city’s night
Is it because our food is processed genetically that we tear off the wrapper as it flies out the window
into the soil where our food is supposed to come from
What happened to the herbs & the remedies
Is it escaping or memory that everything has a breaking point
So when the Earth runs dry of the oil & gold & smoke engulfs the sky
The birds choke & die
The rivers run dry
The trees don’t grow
8 billion lives at stakes when will you learn as you take & take it’s a point where she can’t give no more