With the issue of climate change becoming ever so important, I decided to write a poem about it. Along with publishing the poem here, I also submitted it to Ice Lolly Review's "Campaign Contest."
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The world has not always been this way
For there was once a time when the trees would sway
The peaks of mountains covered with snow
The fireflies once released their luminous glow
Cicadas chorused through the long summer days
Fish of all colors abundantly filled the glistening bays
What once was the present
Has become the past
A bittersweet memory in our minds
A reality that simply could not last
Trees struggle to breathe the unforgiving air
The peaks of mountains have turned completely bare
Animals we once knew so well
Left to die with little to no care
This wound will continue to bleed
So let it become a scar
For scar is better than death
Of a reality that is becoming less and less far
Let the world live another day
For the world does not have to become this way
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