Light

Finnegan Kalnins

Finnegan Kalnins

Age 10-12 category | Spring into Poetry Contest 2025 | San José Public Library

Light From the sky.  
A plant,  
Reaching out.  
From a seed,  
To a sapling,  
Growing up, Into the sky.  
Now a tree,  
Towering up,  
There to admire,  
So beautiful-  
But then, the forest falls,  
The sound of machines,  
The tree dies,  
Sliced apart,  
Tore apart,  
Uprooted,  
Killed- Is this,  
What we wanted,  
This is our planet,  
Our soil,  
Our seed-  
But we kill it,  
Smash it down,  
Rip it apart,  
Burn it down,  
News stations,  
Call it a mistake,  
But we knew-  
We knew-  
Destruction Cities,  
Of metal,  
Skyscrapers,  
In Singapore,  
There were trees,  
In 1890, Thriving, Amazing,  
The green giants,  
Spreading, Mother Earth,  
Holding them,  
Lush bushes, plants, animals-  
An air that smells like flowers,  
A small brook in the meadow...  
But a year later,  
The bulldozers came,  
Trees, Slashed down,  
Built-in metal-  
This happens, Everywhere,  
We need to fix this, Everywhere,  
We can do it,  
We can do it,  
Just- Believe 
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