Animals And Pollution

• Gabriel Sabri, Grade 2, Green Valley Public School
• Poetry
• 2019

Excellence Award in the 'Inspired 2019' competition

Where are the birds that used to be in the sky?
They're not here anymore, and I have to wonder why.
Where are the fish that used to swim in this stream?
I can't see them anymore. What does that mean?
Where are the frogs that used to croak around this lake?
I can't hear them anymore. There must be some mistake.
I wish there was a clock whose hands I could rewind.
We might have saved these creatures if we'd just had time.
Time to make people see how we're damaging our Earth,
Time to realise what this world is truly worth.
But the animals are disappearing at a quick rate.
If we don't save the animals, it may really be too late.
So we need to save the animals.