The Enviromental Problem

• Angus Orchison, Grade 8, St John's Catholic School -
• Poetry
• 2018

Excellence Award in the 'Horizon of Dreams 2018' competition

The wind tugs at the bag, sending it soaring through the air and with a splash, into the ocean
The bag and its contents sink deeper
Past the floral coral, the bright schools of fish and down into the dark abyss of nothing.
As the empty cans tumble out of the bag and down into the ocean
A turtle swims by on a mission to find a meal
The sun's rays catch the cans; I propel myself in a forward motion.
Thinking only of my stomach I lunge forward, tearing off plastic and chew and chew
Something's wrong, I realize as I struggle to breath while still chewing some more
I can feel the plastic slide down my throat and enter my lungs.
I stop chewing and swim, going to the one place where I know I'll get help.
The last wave he would ever hear came in during the high tide.
As Soon as I get to the beach I feel a blackness coming over me like a squid's ink.
The green husk lay helplessly on the hot sand
The sun blazed like the stars in the night sky onto the lifeless shell of the turtle,
As the last drip of water dried like a pool of water in the sun baked west in his throat,
The husk of the turtle crumbled under the blazing sun
Be part of the solution not the pollution