Then And Now

• Caitlyn Putt, Grade 7, Macarthur Anglican School
• Poetry
• 2016

Excellence Award in the 'Word Zone 2016' competition

Cars honking
Smoke in the air
People coughing
With no one to care
I remember
Sun beaming
Birds singing
Flowers gleaming
Cigarette butts
Tin cans crushed
The pollution that surrounds
I prefer how things were
Not how they are now