Raw sewage, plastic and Styrofoam are now gracing the water.
The heat increases the water’s pungent aroma.
And apart from giving us nasal congestion,
It’s really a killer upon ingestion.
Yes, our water is really about to choke
Here floats a mattress, there a can of coke.
The number of plastic bags thrown away increases through ignorance.
The hopelessly overflowing bins
Are body of evidence of our sins.
The bag only just demanded in the shop
A step further along, to the floor it’ll drop.
Such a wasteful society, but can’t they see,
That the world they destroy belongs
not only to me?
Squashed burger wrappers & stuff that’s no good
Are clogging up drains and cause roads to flood.
The city’s appearance takes no further gains
Through plastic containers of fast-food chains.
So many times would I like to shout, "stop"
When I see people letting their rubbish drop?
The roads are littered with tons of waste
Makes you stumble, if you are in haste.
As if all this garbage wasn’t damage enough,
The air is so bad – it’s making you cough.
The numerous diesels of countless cars
Keep running while our lungs bear the scars.
To cure the chest disease most people suffer
With every year it only gets tougher.
The air pollution index is hitting the roof,
But most of the people want further proof
that to take a deep breath in Causeway Bay
may shorten your life by more than a day
Changing bad habits is a small price to pay
For the health of our children, wouldn’t you say?
Just think about how deprived they all are,
Never seen a clean spot apart from afar
Only on TV will they be able to see
The bright blue skies, which used to be
But there’s other pollution we could discuss
And that is a nuisance less evident to us.
I’m talking of the noise we all have to bear
The stress factor of which
many aren’t even aware.
Did you never stop and ask yourself why
people are shouting even when they’re nearby?
The hearing of so many people is going to hell
and not just the old folks’ – the young ever notice the permanent hums
that’s ever-present, invading your ear’s drum?
The environmental pollution can be
added and added…
Why don’t people want to understand
the impending disaster that’s clearly at hand?
It would be so easy to make a few rules
Teach them to our children in the schools.
For adults to acquire this precious knowledge,
we wouldn’t even have to send them to college
Just make them pay for the damage they cause
And soon there’ll be less environment flaws.
We will be the glorified heroes if we are to fight against pollution and protect the environment.