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A POEM ON UNITING TO SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT
Thunderstorm in Kisuma
Listen!
Listen to the frightening
Horrifying
Deafening rumble
Like some mighty
Unidentified foreign object.
He heaves and sighs,
To announce its arrival
And upheaval
that scares the green city of lake Sango.
The city
Whose dazzling beauty
Is noticesed beyong
Kiboswa hills.
Demonic and traumatizing
It transcends from the west.
Roaring like a wild lion!
Full of curiosity,
and lack of knowledge
Of its harmful effects
it engulfs us in its arms.
We get entangled
In his charm
To conform to the developed world.
Weak willed
With an urge to experiment
We are swept in this storm of modernity.
The city planners and businessmen
Succumb to its weight
And force.
The inhabitant of the city estates
Succumb to its rhythm and might.
Accompanied by noise,
Disorganized Boda boda parks
That robs us
of our city’s aesthetic beauty.
And leaves us
With dirty and unkempt
Koile, and taifa parks.
Dirty waters of
Of river Nyamasaria
Proudly strolls to
the great lake.
As it gathers momentum,
The pregnant clouds
Get heavy and aggressive
As the hot afternoon
Turns gloomy,
Dull and miserable
To surrender to the storm
And all its wings.
Together we move
In several effortless effort
Whizzing like wild ghosts
Ready to attack.
But
Meekly, we remain victims.
Pata! Pata! Pata! Pata!
The storm breaks
Into droplets
It pours its fat droplets
With fury and anger!
To shower kisumu city
With showers of air pollution
Driving raw sewage into
The beautiful lake sango!
That bursts
Into numerous deaths of fish and cholera.
The storm hits
The city
With unstable and careless behaviour
Of the black hearted residents
Who bother not to care
About environment.
The storm subsides
With chilly drought
And this,
Awakens the human kind.
We assess and get sensitized
To the harmful effects
Of this storm of environmental degradation.
As we assess the damage
Rained by the storm,
we join hands together
to promote awareness
to Combat Climate Change
to make our environment pollution free
We condemn this storm!
We encourage
And educate personal development
We unite as
A Task force
To drive away this storm.
To stop it from
Enslaving us!
With poverty, hunger and disease.
For we have a choice,
To enjoy a clean environment.
By Laurain and Sheilla-