Ariel's Sacrifice
Once upon a time,
there was a girl.
Who lived in the grime
along with the pearls.
She lived in the sea,
and was nothing but stuck.
Breathing in debris
under all of the muck.
She wished to be,
a mermaid no more.
So she could be free
from the ocean's vast floor
But if she were a person,
she realized with grief.
She would only worsen
the polluted barrier reef.
This poem is about:
Our world