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Future Earth

February 8, 2013
By CrazyWriter161 BRONZE, La Grange, North Carolina
CrazyWriter161 BRONZE, La Grange, North Carolina
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Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Why fit in when you were born to stand out?&rdquo; <br /> ― Dr. Seuss


The body,once bright and beautiful,
Now stands as a decrepit corpse.
Once full of energy and life,
But now nothing more than a rotten orb.

Now this body is ashen;
Black smoke billows from its pores,
And black sludge leaks into its tear ducts.
Slowly, Slowly, this once perfect body decomposes.

Years of debris stains the pale green hair;
Sludge taints its deep blue skin.
Excessive heat kills the creatures that reside there;
Tears unfreeze and overflow, destroying everything in their path.

Take heed from this body;
Rotting slowly, so slowly.
If changes cannot be made,
Soon it will be ours; slowly, so slowly

Dying.


The author's comments:
What inspired me to write this poem was that if we don't watch over our Earth, then things will get worse. When I think about it, it always reminds of this quote from The Lorax: "Unless someone like you cares a whole lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not."

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