Misty Skies
The smog-filled heavens rest above the tight and crowded metropolis,
glistening city lights hypnotize you as you try and find your way home.
You lose sight of your family as you fly into what seems like an endless hell,
Hunger begins to consume you and your wings feel numb.
Hunger begins to control you as you dive into the city,
searching for something to call a meal you spot a rodent crawling.
As its life slowly drains you snatch it and end its suffering,
You feel a sudden pain in your stomach as you begin to fall.
“It is for a greater cause,” the people say,
seemingly ignorant of what they have caused.
Knowing what they did but refusing to acknowledge it,
we must do something soon.
My name is Marco Ducharme and I chose to write a poem reflecting on my experience with my DLab Life on Land and how we as humans affect the rest of life on earth. I have always been interested in wildlife and wrote in my T popper my passion for it and how I have always felt a connection to it. My DLab team went deep into the pollution aspects that are affecting wildlife. I found it very interesting but sad to unravel how many things we do on a day to day basis that negatively affects our world and felt a need to spread awareness about these problems. In my poem, I try to reflect on everything that is happening and to maybe shed light on some of these lesser-known problems.
For me what it means to be good is many things but I think one of the most important reasons is motivation. Many people may do good things but it’s their motives that matter the most. Did they do it for social acceptance because they had to, or did they truly do it to be a good person? That in my opinion is one of the most important aspects that may at times be overlooked.
I am also very passionate about travel, which I think will be extremely affected as pollution gets worse in many places. As horrible as many of the things that are happening right now are, I still do believe that there is hope and that humans can somehow find a way to fix what we have all caused. We need to find a way to tell all of the generations to come not just what the problem is but what they can do to slow it down or even stop it. I truly believe that we have a fighting chance to stop what has been started but we need to act instead of simply talking about how bad these problems are and do nothing about them.
