Human Impact On Marine Life Poems

The human impact on marine life deeply saddens me, as I'm sure it does you.

The delicate balance of our ocean's ecosystems are being affected through industrial runoff, overfishing, pollution, destruction of breeding habitats, climate change—unfortunately, the list goes on and on.

From trash littering our beaches to plastics suffocating sea creatures, from the brutal clubbing of seals to whales tortured in the name of archaic traditions—our oceans bear the scars of human negligence and cruelty.

If marine life could voice their grievances, what would they say to us? Perhaps something like this:

How do we navigate through all this debris you've left behind? Your trash penetrates our skin and scales. We watch our companions struggle with bodies coated in slime and oil. Barrels leak poison across the seafloor, creating toxic paths we cannot avoid. We're scarred and choked by an endless upwelling of contamination.

Can you really claim ignorance? How would you feel swimming through putrid grease that coats your limbs and weighs you down? Would you willingly float among human waste? Why should we have to?

Would you relish being entangled in plastic until you die a slow, painful death? Or crushed together with thousands of others in a net? You wouldn't tolerate having your skull bashed in or propellers scarring your flesh. Think about what you're doing to us.

These poems give voice to those who cannot speak for themselves—a call for compassion and responsibility toward the creatures we share this planet with.