Through the forestAnd past the lake

Lies an empty spaceAcross the meadow

As green as the tressAs clean as the grass

As busy as beesAcross the meadow

But lurking in a hollow logLie angry animals

Preparing for a huge attackAcross the meadow

The wombats and the tired molesHave dug the fertile soil

The termites and the flapping birdsHad destroyed the evergreen trees

And even the orangutansAte eucalyptus leaves

But the now the meadow is no moreThe trees are gone, the ground is bare

The animals have gone to homes elsewhere

But soon enough the trucks come byThey drop a ton of rubbish

Once a home for animals and plantsThe meadow is now a dump

Every week from 4amThe rubbish trucks move in

They leave the townsfolk’s rubbish thereAnd off they go

Across the wasteland

The world that was, now goneOnly memories remain

Where a beautiful world had been

Save the environment!

By: Leon Tan