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Lights of LIfe

December 1, 2016
By boaripken511 BRONZE, Clarkston, Michigan
boaripken511 BRONZE, Clarkston, Michigan
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We look up at the sky

See a starry night,

And

We know that there's nothing

No flickers of light,

And

No lamps

No bulbs

Just the night sky.

A motionless black hole,

With

Nothing being sucked up,

But

Silver studded stars

And

Time.

We look to our left,

To our right,

And

Nothing is there,

But

Well ...

Nothing.

World,

Oh world,

What have we done?

I see the stars,

And the moon,

But

Where is the

Sun?

Did we do this?

How do we make it right?

All we wanted was just ...

To shed a little light

On

The subject.

Oh mother nature,

It is not in our nature,

To forever scar our stature

It would change humanity's nomenclature

All of the animal's horrible slander

Oh look!

The killers of nature.

We are unaware of what is going on here

How we are too worried about losing things

We're too worried about our fear

We aren't even noticing what we are doing to the other

Living things

On this Earth

That's  heart is slowing beating

And it's brain slowly dying

It's body surely frying

Because of global warming.

How did I go from talking about

Light to death?

How did humans go from help

To destroy?

We don't know what to do

To help you Earth

And I believe I speak for you

When I say this

There's nothing we can do

Because what has already happened

Cannot be undone.

I am sorry

And I know many others aren't.

For our attention may drift,

From one thought to another,

But I will not forget you,

Earth's

Own

Dying

Nature

Mother.


The author's comments:

I saw a picture when it was dark outside. One light at the end of ourdriveway. Every house was seemingly empty. No lights except for the one at the ed of our driveway. I took a picture up close it that one light. I built off of it and improvised as I went, branching off into bigger, better, deeper ideas.


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