A Lake's Obituary Poem by Alem Hailu Gabre Kristos

The mob, elites, journalists
As well as poets like I
To our environment-unfriendly bent
Turning a blind eye
Also tardy in asking 'Why
We strip of mother nature's green mantle,
While to maintain the statuesque
It gets locked in a sever battle? '

Equally not checking overgrazing,
We allowed fertile soil and sand
Amok, wild floods ride
To a close by touristic lake,
Whose mouth an expansion
Used to make
As much as its foreign body intake.
Soon, with the vast array of
Flora and fauna it supports,
Before we knew it
The magnificent lake died
Ceding place to a barren land,
An eyesore that looked a dump yard!