Reflection

Reflection

My poem, “Lifeline” encapsulates the recent years where I have started noticing the impacts climate change has made on our planet. Where I live, the summers were always warm and the winters were always cold. That’s how I’ve always experienced it ever since I was young, but due to climate change, the winters feel like summer and the summers feel like winter. Nowadays it snows during the spring, and what used to be an abundant amount of snow that I once hated clearing my driveway for during the winter is a rare moment. Climate change happened so slowly for a long period that I never actually noticed it, depending on the weather like a lifeline that I never thought would change. I believed that everything was okay. However, after I experienced these visible changes, I was exposed to the world of climate change, but didn’t view it as me impacting the planet, but rather the planet negatively impacting me. As I delved deeper into climate change, I realized that I was thinking about climate change the wrong way. Instead of being disappointed at Earth and complaining about it not being the very thing I trusted with my life and labeling it a “lifeline,” I should have been disappointed at myself for being the opposite of what Earth has done for me: humans were the “deathline.” This poem’s purpose is only truly fulfilled if everyone gets inspired to take action against climate change. It’s our turn to be Earth’s lifeline.