Nature

• Adut Dekuek, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2017

Nature is graceful and elegant, nature inspires me
Nature is happy, it's sad, it's angry
It's dark, but it’s also light.
Nature has all these feelings, it is free, able to breathe, no rules,
Nature is angry, we hurt nature
Because we think it is beautiful
We pick flowers, and cut down trees
We mow the grass, we break our nature
But us humans also break, we are natures children
When we get angry or sad, we hurt ourselves
We look in the mirror and say "I am ugly”,
We cut our arms wishing, we could be good enough
Wishing people loved us, but just like nature,
We grow back, and we grow back beautifully.