Homework week ending 20/02/12 - I OWE HIM LIFE

[Maureen K Clifford]

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

[Maureen K Clifford]

Just in case anyone had wondered the bloke cutting the turtle free was my son