I OWE HIM LIFE

 In 2012 my son David rescued a turtle enmeshed in fishing line and rope.  I was never more proud of him, for he too spoke for the animals.  They have no voice but ours.

I OWE HIM LIFE .. Maureen Clifford ©  The #ScribblyBarkPoet

 

 

The world embraces green or so they claim.

But I am green no one embraces me

apart from Mother Earth who always has.

Her warmth nurtures my eggs. I swim her sea.

 

Around my neck are twisted fetters blue,

this dragging weight has cut into my flesh.

The trailing tendrils rob me of my strength

and threaten flailing flippers to enmesh.

 

I seek nothing other than to be free

to swim the ocean shores across the world.

Endangered I’ve become because of man

as his pollution through oceans has swirled.

 

Today a saviour cut loose my restraints.

At first I feared.  I saw the sharpened knife.

But soon the cursed ropes from me he cleared.

I know not who he is.  I owe him life.