A poem entered in the Mini-Poetry competition for World Environment Day, 2022
What are you doing?
Where are you going?
My child
What are you doing?
Where are you going?
I sculptured lush rainforests for you
Scattered them skillfully on your mountain tops to the flat plains
Graciously
So you can breathe
so you can live
I painted magnificent bodies of waters for you
filling them with a vast array of
rainbows
A body of beautiful creatures
Great and small
To eat, to see
to sustain life
I plowed the land for you
hiding precious gems and treasures
And gave you fertile soil
that you may exploit
But not as much
to help you
that you may live comfortably
My child
What have you been doing?
Where have you been going?
I can't breathe properly
the air is too polluted
The waters are rising
My islands are sinking
The rainforests
The beautiful creatures
The precious gems and treasures
They're all gone
gone
My child!
What have you done?
Where are you going to go?
SAYLINE SAYASE ATASE is a second year student at the University of Papua New Guinea School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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