Let It Grow

• Stephanie Jersmann, Grade 7, St Ignatius College
• Poetry
• 2016

Excellence Award in the 'Word Zone 2016' competition

The dirt glows red on the mountains
Not a green patch to be seen
A kingdom of pollution
Oh I wish our world were clean
The sun is burning down on red and hot, dry sand
As we all try to escape the sun’s hot, burning hand
It’s scary how pollution can change our whole world
And the future laid before us has now been unfurled
It’s time to see what we can do
To reduce, recycle and renew
Let everybody in and let them see
The damage of what they refused to believe
It’s now not then, we need to grow
So let us grow.