Poem: Save me. Save yourself.
I look at you with the same smile everyday of my life,
I offer you support and all you give me is strife. My arms are extending, To offer you a last chance, Please stop global warming, Or I will no longer be able to dance. My exterior shimmers vastly everyday, But what you don’t see is the decay. My interior is dying, emptying itself out, Please stop global warming, Or you’ll never know what I’m all about. My inhabitants are feasting on my pretty disclosed plants, But my temperature is rising, And they just think it’s chance, But I know the truth, The horrid honest truth, It’s you who’s adding to the atmosphere and taking away my youth. You’re making me age prematurely, And die before my time. You say you did not know, My decay is hidden by the tide, But how long can you go, In your denial? I am the ocean, Big and blue and vast, But the life inside me dies while you set off chemical blasts. Please please please, Stop your damaging acts, My coral reefs are being bleached, And my fishes are becoming mad. I give you much of your oxygen, And provide you your food, But if my coral reefs die, My fish and I will die too. By Amelia Lorrimore |