Mother Earth's One Request: Poem
By, Wendiann Alfieri
Paper from trees,
used for printing contracts you’ll sign
without reading the terms
Of which legalities will procure
Oil for travel
Spilled into the sea
Lies are how you
apologize to me
The air is filling thick with cigarette smoke
Trash cans overflowing into the streets
No one taking responsibility
Complexity of a dollar sign
Leave many broken
Learning to commit fraud and crimes
Whatever gets the food in time
We say we love animals, instead many are abandoned
Dangerous to only those
Who don’t have sympathy
The air filled with the smell of our own waste
When sewage systems fail
We’ve used all our options
Innocence is robbed day to day
Children crying out
Adult’s going free
Adults Given the benefit of the doubt
We all know they shouldn’t receive
Everything anyone says
hidden behind technicalities
Freedom of speech but there’s still legalities.
Smiles showing rotted teeth
Shoes we walk in shakily
Understand, the world is being destroyed
We are complicit ignoring dark voids
Nothing is pure or left to grow
We shrink when there’s something we don’t want to know
we usually overshadow earth’s natural beauty
Out of all the things, I just ask one favor, from you to me,
Can we just let the flowers be?
