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Jul 2019
Soaring over a gray, neglected ocean
Not a fish or strand of seaweed in sight
All my brothers and sisters, gone in a flash
I’m left to wander through the night

The only creature left on my planet
A tired, but majestic gull
All I can do now is sit and wonder
Where did my precious Earth go?

For humans have gone extinct
All fish and ocean dwellers, too
All of my kind, the creatures of the sky
There is only me, no more you

As the hunger slowly takes away my life
And my patchy wings are flapping weak
I settle down for one last breath
This world is not for the meek

Now not a lonely bird, but a lonely world
No longer a place of miracles
But need not fear, life will emerge again
Hopefully, they won’t be as pitiful
I did a school project on ocean pollution at the end of the year, and this is one of the poems I wrote for the end product. I printed this poem onto nice paper and stuck it to a magnetic frame. I sold about 15 of these to parents!
Lye
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Lye  13/Non-binary/home
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