A poem entered in the Mini-Poetry competition for World Environment Day, 2022
THE MOTHER-EARTH The land, the birth giver The sea once sanitary Life-giver, she remains Now filled with thick crude oil Yet we toil We fear we might be short-lived All she offers As marine life starts disappearing We use her The soil once full of life For our own good laid barren In a way From use of chemicals We plot her death by lazy farmers Air to breathe Broken bottles and squashed newspapers Food to survive Found on the surface of every grass Home to live in Trees removed, cemented upon Friends for fun no shade for generations to come Yet that’s not enough Very soon, all will be gone We want more An extinction all men seem to ignore With greedy lusts A lifeless land with nothing more We search for more than just mere men struggling to survive We pollute the air She gave us all she had With gases we create Like a mother to her child Trying to kill ourselves from birth to death From lack of breath Mother earth remains
NAOMI DUBABAGI attends the Divine Word University, studying in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, PNG Studies and International Relations.
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