Homework week ending 20/02/12 - I OWE HIM LIFE
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:26 am
I OWE HIM LIFE
The world embraces green or so they claim.
But I am green no one embraces me
apart from Mother Earth who always has.
Her warmth nurtures my eggs. I swim her sea.
Around my neck are twisted fetters blue,
this dragging weight has cut into my flesh.
The trailing tendrils rob me of my strength
and threaten flailing flippers to enmesh.
I seek nothing other than to be free
to swim the ocean shores across the world.
Endangered I’ve become because of man
as his pollution through oceans has swirled.
Today a saviour cut loose my restraints.
At first I feared. I saw the sharpened knife.
But soon the cursed ropes from me he cleared.
I know not who he is. I owe him life.
Maureen Clifford © 02/12
The world embraces green or so they claim.
But I am green no one embraces me
apart from Mother Earth who always has.
Her warmth nurtures my eggs. I swim her sea.
Around my neck are twisted fetters blue,
this dragging weight has cut into my flesh.
The trailing tendrils rob me of my strength
and threaten flailing flippers to enmesh.
I seek nothing other than to be free
to swim the ocean shores across the world.
Endangered I’ve become because of man
as his pollution through oceans has swirled.
Today a saviour cut loose my restraints.
At first I feared. I saw the sharpened knife.
But soon the cursed ropes from me he cleared.
I know not who he is. I owe him life.
Maureen Clifford © 02/12