We have been greatly affected by deforestation and other environmental hazards. So, I wrote a poem and a short essay to celebrate World Earth Day. I hope you will find it interesting.
A Short Essay!
The Black Agri-Vulture Man Sowed
Have you ever wondered the significance of the Green White Green in our flag? Nigeria is a land of green blessed with so many natural resources and made so much income from it. Even the music by TY Bello, the “Land is Green” makes this affirmative.
Man’s greatest problem started when it sparked global warming; a continuous pollution of her land through gas emission, mining and refining which affected our aquatic life and exposed us to deforestation with no afforestation. Lake Chad and River Basins are dry, making irrigation nearly impossible. The worse is the bloody strife between farmers and herders, which should ideally be a symbiotic relationship – herders feeding their livestock in grazing which helps farmers to weed farmlands in preparation for new season. Were we supposed to use blood to water our farms?
The climate has worsened even though agriculturists, scientists tried to give us hope through their several predictions. They even gave us precautions of how to reduce the effect but to no avail.
Rains and sunshine no longer come as usual. It was either the sun returned more fierce as or the rain became too violent that it washed all our farm heaps. There was no better way to help this because the two natures seem so raging on us. Who is to save us now?
We can no longer boast of our exports power neither could we live on past agricultural glory as our crops kept dying and our income no longer come because our produce could hardly sustain us. We import food items because our people no longer believe nor show interest in what we can produce.
We need a Green Agriculture right? Then let us go back to the beginning by restoring the dignity of our Green White Green!
A SHORT POEM
The Green Screen (April 2020)
Mummy, I am filled,
I want some more to eat
I grew up so healthy and beautiful
Always being admired by the young youths
Little did I know a time will come
When I will be weakened by my lapsy bone
A time when I will be left alone with nothing
Nothing to plant,
No water on the sand
Mummy is no more responding
Because of the destructive nature of man
All these while she cared about me,
But no more cared about her being
She is weak and can’t grow me better.
She is gone
And the whole village is on the run
I am devastated
My whole back aches to help her alone
What can man do to help my state
Even after I have cried till dawn
Happy Earth Day!
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