“Lush and green,
Thriving with life,
The resilience of nature,
Fully shown,
In all its majesty,
But a single spark,
Of human greed,
Sets the once thriving forest ablaze.
The deer and tiger run together,
Fleeing this once placid land,
Of a balanced scale,
That was tipped by the extra ounce of human greed,
The forest now comes crashing to the ground,
The wildlife is butchered and so is the forest,
As the insatiable greed of the human grows,
And sick twisted laughter from the pleasure of profit,
Echo through the jungle.”
You capture the greed and carelessness of humans so well in this poem where the land was ‘of a balanced scale’ and now only ‘laughter from the pleasure of profit/echo through the jungle.’
I am glad your teacher made you write poetry for not doing your homework — you are a great poet!
Thank you so MUCH! That means a lot to me!