Poem: What Have We Done? - World Environment Day
What Have We Done? The one who loves us like a mother Who is one-of-a-kind and like no other Giving shelter now and forever Our first home is our mother earth Why are we welcoming her with dirt? For she doesn’t deserve the hatred In the form of negligence and our selfish acts From oil spills To pervasive smoke from mills From greenhouse gas emissions To detrimental chemicals Ice caps melting are her tears The smoke and forest fires is her rage To the acid rain demonstrating her downcast in the cage How can we be so thankless? It’s time that we change Save every water drop And not cut every crop To start another factory flop Skyrocketing destruction to the top What have we done to our sweet home? Come on let’s bring our actions to a STOP !! -Kavya Mehta