Prompt: Save the planet 9/21/2021
Poem # 1
Planet why does your face look so grim? - Why do you only show me what’s on your surface?
My heart aches knowing that you won’t tell me anything more than a measly sliver of emotions. It hurts knowing that you don’t trust me enough.
Are you in pain because of me? Did I hurt you?
The leaves on your trees are brittle dry.
All your oceans are rising by the hour - the plastic and grime thrown into the defenseless bodies of water will be the end of us, won’t it?
Selfishness and shamelessness will stab us in the back with that very sword we used to harm others.
All our factories - cars, and countless bags full of rotten garbage pollute our earth, our home!
Our lives depend on it - on the earth!
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PoetryPoetry- "Although the two of us co-exist now, as one - tomorrow could be a war. A war between us, against you... But we are you? Does it feel nice being torn in two?" Here- -for us, the broken ones. For us, the broken, betrayed, and hopeless ones. ...
