Death

By Aan Sehgal, Grade 10

We are losing what we should save
We all need it but we don’t care
It will slip away from our grasp

We are 8,
But not just 8
Rather, 8 billion

We are killing
Not murdering
But losing

Our Sun is fading
Not many years left
The yellow, fading away

We are hurting
Not others
But ourselves

We are taking
Not giving
What’s dying

We left something
Something not good
Something that will kill

What it will kill,
You do not know
All you know is you kill

You kill every hour
Of Every Minute
Of Every Second

You murder
Again and Again
And Again

You do not regret
Because you barely know
That you are killing

We are 8,
But not just 8
Rather, 8 billion

We have 1
No stop
Just 1

Yet still, we are killing
Yet still, we do not care
In the end, we cause our doom

We bid our world farewell
Goodbye earth,
We’re sorry.