Pollution
1 in 10 die from pollution
Do you know any solution?
Trapped in an illusion,
Maybe this is our retribution.
Malaysia, my lovely home,
Ranked third most polluted nation, according to chrome.
The fact that 32,000 people die due to air pollution isn’t unknown.
How am I the only one who knows, am I Sherlock Holmes?
Our seas are no longer blue.
Our lakes and rivers are now the color of gruel.
More than 50% of our rivers are pollute.
Marine life dies from diseases, and illnesses, isn’t that cruel?
The rotting flesh,
The stench,
The disease it spreads.
The dirty rats, the pests that thrive on that.
Crises, catastrophes, we may all die
In the future, in the sky, no birds fly,
Ice caps melt,
Acid rain pelt
Plague of death and darkness
The consequence upon us
For we created this,
This terrible virus
Every morning I wake,
I would wish that life was fake.
The rubbish across my streets.
The ozone layer depletes.
The impending death,
Do you feel it I do?
A clock ticking,
Like a bomb that is about to detonate.
When there’s no food or water,
Global Warming,
Natural Disasters,
None of us will have any lives.
When you try,
Do you even try?
Do you sigh?
Do you give up and say, maybe another night, another time?
Why do people not see.
What we enjoy has a fee.
Why do we continue?
What we always do.
Our deadline draws closer,
A cigarette end thrown by a smoker,
The polluted seas darker,
The landfills higher.
Mother nature screams,
Earthquake shaking extreme,
Water rising like steam,
Nightmare revealed in a dream.
I see a light,
You and me we could win this fight.
If we see what is hidden in our sight,
If we do what is right.
Clean our environment,
This is urgent.
Save items that can be reused,
The waste we produce, let it be reduced.
Start little by little.
Throw trash into their bins, not anywhere else, but right in the middle.
Donate old clothes from when you were little.
Try doing these things, it’s okay to start simple.
Promote making the world better,
Do it all together.
For us, our predecessors,
For the future, for our successors.
Thank you!
About this poem
To spread awareness of pollution, especially in my country. I've honestly seen pollution everywhere throughout my life, rubbish is always everywhere, a lot of our lakes and rivers stink, there's haze and plenty more even though our country contains so much nature and beauty. Sometimes nearby my house where there are lots of restaurants, at night, I see rats scurrying around the bushes. I hope that people will start trying little by little to make our home a happier, cleaner place. My mom always tries to recycle stuff like plastic bottles and containers, old clothes, and other stuff. Not many people I know do any of these things, except for reusing plastic containers, lol, it's quite common that one here. When it comes to the rhetorical questions, it was because there's this beautiful beach in Sekinchang, many people go there to enjoy the beauty but when they leave, they leave behind rubbish and the beach becomes filthy. Many of us take what nature has given us for granted. And that's i more »
Submitted by tan.z220907 on August 19, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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