by Anne Gruner
How do we harm thee? Let me count the ways.
We choke you with our deadly greenhouse gases,
and change your water to deadly carbonic acid.
For shellfish and corals, it is the end of days,
as warming skies set seven seas ablaze.
Into your great expanse we discharge masses
of waste and plastics, killing all that passes
and forming zones of algal death in bays.
Heads bowed, we pray you make us wise,
as no denial brings us absolution
for turning our backs as steaming seas still rise.
We seek your ecological affusion
to no longer ignore the ocean's cries,
as we sail close to the winds of aquatic extinction.
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