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Defiled

Oh, man! 

Have you forgotten the livelihood 

You derive from me? 

Don't cut the branch 

You are sitting on! 

Why do you treat me 

Like your co - wife? 

No, No, No, indeed No! 

You're sufficiently endowed 

With insufficient mercy on me 

You introduce me to all wraths 

You defile and rape me 

You destroy all cover, my protection 

But nurture less or none 

You suffocate me with heaps of plastic 

Under whose weight l groan desperately 

But attract only nobody's attention 

You torment me in urban areas more 

Not saving my existence in rural areas 

You banned polythene bags with the left 

But returned them with the right 

Ruining my productivity right, left and center 

Posing a danger to terrestrial and marine life 

Culminating in threatening you yourself 

If you are to promote co - existence 

Do what can restore my dying glory 

Scratch my back, l shall scratch yours