Pollution
Use me as an example.
Floating on sea's of vanishing waters ,
soaked up by those who care not for the amount of pollution tossed in to it.
It's importance ignored for profit.
Use me as a sponge soaking up oil polluted lake's,
saving aquatic wildlife from suffocating slowly.
A diamond in the ruff covered by the glam of fashion,
forgetting the slave trade's used to harness it.
Clothing line's forgotten due to the sweatshops used to give it it's fame.
A fair exchange ends up not quite the same.
It's never what you meant when it's time to explain.
When it come's time to change.
The growth of tree's important for me to breath,
cut down for me to use breaths expressing thoughts seen by me or expressed unto me.
Killing off nature selfishly,
for materialism unable to be taken by me from this earth when I leave.
Copyright © Nyisha Hampton | Year Posted 2009
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