Earth Day by Damini Awoyiga

Earth you have grown…so much

Like a baby in its mother’s eyes…

You have...

thrived...

You went through life, death

Deconstruction a bit a…

Reconstruction

We cut down your trees

Then plant them like weeds

In places where there were no trees

Where instead we should’ve

Kept their fore-mothers, and fore-fathers alive

So they live, breath

Purify with ease

We know your crying

Dying

We feel you

“ Koff Koff “

Wheezing

Stop breathing

pleading

For us to

Change our ways

In exchange

For better days

You sur - face bare with wrinkles

Your once firm skin looks

As if it has

Sinned

The trees that one held your sur-face

Have been e -rased

And now you face…

is filled with a flood of tears

Trickling into your ears

From all those years

Of pain

Of suffering

Your face filled with

Disdain

As you looked at your people

Whom

You gave everything...

And yes...

they took everything till you concaved