NO TO POLLUTION

A gray blanket, heavy as a shroud,

covers the sky, obscuring the sun,

robbing it of its golden light.

The lungs of the earth,

once green and lush, now gasp,

suffocated by a layer of smoke and dust.

The water, once a crystalline mirror reflecting the infinite blue,

has become a distorted reflection,

a broken mirror showing a sick,

contaminated face, full of chemical scars.

The forests, once majestic,

stand like naked skeletons,

their dry branches whispering a silent agony,

a lament for lost life.

The cities, giants of concrete and steel,

have been transformed into oppressive cages,

imprisoning life in their labyrinth of asphalt,

suffocating the breath of nature.

A dull echo, a stifled cry,

rises from the earth,

a deep lament that barely reaches our ears,

deafened by the noise of industry,

by the constant hum of technology.

Seeds of destruction, sown with indifference,

with greed, spread with the wind,

reaping a toxic future, a future where life withers,

where beauty fades.

Time, inexorable, flows like a slowly emptying hourglass,

watching us with an impassive gaze,

a silent witness to our destruction.

But in the deepest darkness, a spark of hope persists.

A green shoot, timid and fragile,

pushes its way through the cracks in the asphalt,

defying the gray monotony.

A solitary flower, a resilient tree,

a sign of life that resists death.

A faint but firm echo whispers in the wind,

an echo of hope that rises above lament,

a song to the possibility of regeneration,

a call to action, to responsibility, to transformation.

Nature, wounded but not defeated,

extends a hand to us, a last chance.

The future is not yet written…

GRACIELA NOEMI VILLAVERDE is a writer and poet from Concepción del Uruguay (Entre Rios) Argentina, based in Buenos Aires She graduated in letters and is the author of seven books of poetry, awarded several times worldwide. She works as the World Manager of Educational and Social Projects of the Hispanic World Union of Writers and is the UHE World Honorary President of the same institution Activa de la Sade, Argentine Society of Writers. She is the Commissioner of Honor in the executive cabinet IN THE EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL RELATIONS DIVISION, of the UNACCC SOUTH AMERICA ARGENTINA CHAPTER.