The Green Hawksbill Sea Turtle
By Addison B
Look deep into the coral reef and you will find
The beautiful green hawksbill sea turtles
Swimming and gracefully gliding through The Great Barrier Reef
With the green seaweed and sea creatures around me.
They tell me stories about how they cant find a home
When they go to search for food to feed their babies
But the fishing nets capture me, my nests and my babies we are stranded
Out in the sea we can’t see anything with the plastic covering my eyes,
The plastic is now becoming their new home.
The laced acid building up into my muscles
Feeling the burn and anger as I try
To swim to the surface
But I can't all the plastic holds me down
And stop me from getting to my babies.
With the coral flaking off from pollution,
With the blues and greens now changing to browns and yellows with their habitats slowly dying
And becoming dead
The threatened species of the green hawksbill sea turtle.