I, environment - Djeri Wapondi

I, environment I moan, I agonize

By compassion, the ozone layer reddens, roars and shatters.

To save me and to save you,

listen and write down this ordinance and recommendation

for such evil is its remedy and action.

Lead me to an ecological restoration

without overexploitation of my authentic resources

Take part in the reproduction of my species

Develop, reforest, regenerate my forests, my flora.

Protect my arable land

and preserve the hydraulic system.

This is your mission.

Your mission is to make clear plans

Act, become aware of the value of the planet.

And so you who are looking at me

quickly stop making a messy bush

Stop polluting the air

and instead create oases in the deserts

Let a music soil of the ecosystem.

Sprout love around you

Make peace your law, your faith

Love your environment as yourself.

Me environment I moan, I agonize

By compassion lying ozone blushes

roars and shatters.

To save me and to save you

continue by listening and writing down

this ordinance and recommendation

because such evil is its remedy and action.

Avoid anarchic dumps.

Instead, have public bins

Sorts and recycles your waste.

Clean country, clean neighborhood,

clean city, healthy people.

Love your environment like yourself.

As you dress fashionably, decorate your house cleanly.

Unplug the appliances and

turn off the light when you leave your home

because saving money is ecological.

Love your environment like yourself.

Avoid being a coward without conscience

Or rather a boss of science

Put a little humanism in your technology

To serve and assert what is right ecology.

Love your environment like yourself.

Peasants and cultivators practice the cultivar actor.

Give nations food sovereignty

With passion and self-sacrifice feed the earth

for healthy harvests of life-giving delights

Love your environment as yourself.

Love your environment like yourself.

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Djeri Wapondi (born 1991) Togo

Source: AfroWomenPoetry