I surround the moon with my overwhelming strength,

and each morning I push the it towards the other side of the world.

I am the moon’s guardian.

Often when I am feeling grumpy,

My steps are filled with earthquakes that bring quivers around the world.

I am the giant that scares the world.

When I am sad my tears are able to fill the state of California,

The state is in a drought.

I am as happy as can be and apologize to the state.

Playing in the oceans causes storms like no other,

The last one I caused was called “Hurricane Patricia,”

I am offended they don’t use my name.

Humans associate my existence with destruction and unreliability,

Yet they are the ones who are destroying me,

I am Mother Nature.

I can't imagine this world without its fatal tragedies, whether they be caused through mother nature or human nature. Human nature is an unfortunate occurrence that our ignorant nation seems to look past. Not too long ago I overheard someone tell me that climate change is a lie, not real , doesn't exist. Even if you don't believe that we are the ones causing climate change, which by the way we are, you should at least accept the fact that it is happening.

Yet I didn't write this poem to give you numbers, and reasons to believe me. Instead I want you to leave your phone on your bed, in your car, anywhere except your pocket, and go outside. Smell the air, what do you smell? Smog or Sunflowers? Pollution or Peonies? What do you see? Water or Warehouses? Trees or Torn down forests? What do you hear? Construction or Chirping birds?

I am not here to guilt you into switching to a hybrid car, or install solar panels. I am just here to try and make you aware. All of our lives are filled with millions of other things that sometimes days and weeks fly by so quickly that we forget how easily we are destroying our Earth. Many people are proposing the idea of finding a new planet to inhabit, and although many of us will be gone before the world faces worse complications, let's not leave it to the future generations.