Nature's Revenge

• Rashdan Mahmood, Grade 6
• Poetry
• 2015

Humans create metal beasts that use nature as its sustenance.
These metal beasts prey on nature despite the sun gladly giving up its own long life to help feed the iron monsters.
So is it a surprise that nature fights back?
The ocean pursues and crashes into our shelters, drowning us in our own source of life.
The land opens its maw and devours all above it as the humans fall in its burning digestive fluids.
The air spins as if on a merry-go-round and shreds all it wishes to.
The plants that we cut jut out blades to stab us and ensnare us with poison.
The cold traps the humans it hates in a prison of frost and sends them directly to death’s dungeon.
Nature wants its revenge and it will have it if we do not change.