Bushfire
By Catherine L
Published 25 September 2023
I yelp in pain as the flame burns my leaves,
I call for help but no one's there,
All I can hear is my mates fall down
Causing the ground to shake aloud.
But it's not the fact that I can’t even run
It’s that no one would help, wherever I'm from
The animals that lived in me
Are now just ash.
I can’t think of anything that would help me now
Considering people not trying to help
They need me to survive yet they don’t even help me
And yet they’re always using me but don’t bother to need me
Now I just sit burning to the ground.
Now I am nothing but a pile of ash.
Ash they could have
Helped.