What does the future hold for us?
Smog filled skies and poison cars,
And broken land with useless dust
And nature’s beauty behind bars.
Can I ever show my children,
(If they ever come my way)
The beauty of a sunset
At the ending of the day?
Can I walk into a forest,
And surround myself with trees,
Yet know that it will remain,
For me to visit as I please.
I know that I can today
Do all the things I’ve said,
But when today is yesterday,
Will all these things be dead?
This problem is enormous
As we gradually take heed,
So we must fix it quickly,
Using words and thoughts and deeds."
From the Pachamama
(http://edugreen.teri.res.in/misc/poem/poem.htm)
The poem tells us what goes on in the world, the speaker is afraid of the future, he is sad about what the humans done with our earth and describes the consequences of people careless attitude. The writer doesn't write in a special poetry language so you easily understand what he wants to say, his indirect appeal to all the people is that they have to care for our holy world, we have to do something for the environment and not destroy it. Maybe you already can feel and see the effects but in a few years you ONLY feel and see the effects, maybe there isn't a beautiful sunset or a big, green forest anymore. There is only pollution, smog and poison where you look around, no clear wonderful sky or pure nature! No! All over are electronical things, which produces toxic gases, and pollution, no nice trees or cute animals any longer. The poet thinks of his prospective children what they will see whether they'll see the same world or only the bad remains of it. He asks himself when the time will come when the nature is dead, when the plants died, the animals became ill and when you can't watch the phatastic sunsets anymore because of the smogs. In his last paragraph he directly says what to do, he says that the problem is gigantic and we really have to secure our environment with all our appliances.
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