With a Wave, There’s a Way
Manheim, PA
2020, Junior, Poetry & Spoken Word
The ocean of acid
The rising tide
We know what’s happening
Though we walk by.
We see the changes
And look right by
As if these effects are just road signs.
Slowly our Earth decays
We ponder the ways
To fix a problem
That has lasted too many days.
We look back on ourselves
Guilty, yet full of pride
And open our eyes
To see the waves.
With a wave there’s a way
A way to be saved
A way to be freed of this horrid haze.
So, open your eyes
Get out of your memes
And gaze upon the optimistic mangroves and seas
That give us the power to fulfill our needs
With their wind, tides, and wave energy.
A healthy ecosystem will help us clean
Clean the carbon that poisons our dreams.
So, open your ignorant eyes and see
This is real
There is no Planet B.
Stop drilling your oil
Stop burning our Earth
And find hope knowing
Our oceans are the hope, that will be our rebirth.
Works Cited
“Climate Science: What You Need to Know.” YouTube, uploaded by P.B.S. It’s Okay To Be Smart and Joe Nicolosi, Google, 8 Dec. 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&time_continue=364&v=ffjIyms1BX4&feature=emb_logo. Accessed 1 June 2020.
Reflection
Reflection
My work was inspired by something I read while researching that said clean oceans can power our lives and clean oceans and ocean ecosystems can absorb the excess carbon lying in our atmosphere. The feelings I felt while making this poem were hopeful, yet apprehensive, emotions. I felt hopeful that this climate crisis can be fixed, but I felt apprehensive because these horrid things are devastating and will be extremely hard to undo in our lives if we do not act soon. My message to the readers of my poem is that our need of fossil fuels will ultimately be the end-all-be-all of this climate crisis, but if we switch to renewable resources and be overall more self aware of our carbon footprint, we can save our future! After doing research on the climate crisis and its solutions, I have learned that there can be many ways to reverse climate change like low carbon transportation, but it’s a matter of acting on those solutions. What gives me hope about this climate crisis is that there are good people acting on it like Greta Thunberg and others who are trying to help us. After learning about the climate crisis and its solutions, I will unplug chargers when I am not using them and be more aware of my carbon footprint and advocate more for climate justice.