POEM : SAVE ME PEOPLE!

A LETTER FOR PEOPLE

(by: Riris Harwiyati)

 

Dear People,

I just want to remind you

Something that may be you forget

When I was strong

What I have done for you

What I have given to you

And how difficult I did it

 

Do you know, you have changed?

You forget about me

Never care with me anymore

You are not the same

Your arrogance is gonna kill me

So I hope you can change

After hearing what I want to say

 

People, don’t you remember?

By using my strong land, I used to keep you from landslide

By using fruit and the other things that appear from my body, I used to save you from hunger

By using my trees, I used to keep you from warm

By using the roots in my land, I used to save you from blood

By using the lakes on my body, I used to keep you from dryness

By using the green leaves on my trees, I used to give you fresh air to breath

By using all of me, I used to make you survive to life.

I used to save you from anything that can make you extinct, people

 

And now look what you have done to me!

You change my trees with buildings

Fulfill my lakes with your rubbish

Hoe my mountains to be your roads

You neglect your promise, your duty to keep me

To save me from destruction

As what I did to you

 

Who do you think I am, people?

A strong earth that you can exploit as you want?

A rich thing that can give you everything?

No people, I am not the same anymore

I am old

I am fragile

I am weak, people

I can’t always help you if like this

So please give me your hands

Hug me tight

Give me your affection

Heal me

 

Oh people, please save me

From everything that can destroy me

That can destroy you too

 

                                                                                                                                                                Love,

Fragile Earth

 

WRITING 3: THE 8 TASK

Hello world!! Do you miss me? Glad to write a text again! Ehm, anyway I have got a task to make an exposition text. I have three choices of theme. Guess what? I choose the second option of theme (did I tell you the option? "no, you do not." oh my God, I missed it. Well, just forget it!:D). That is "why teens smoke cigarettes?". Why did I choose this theme? Because I feel apprehensive with the teens nowadays. They smoke cigarettes freely without any fear and worry. Moreover, I dislike person who smoke cigarettes. But actually not the person, but rather the "thing" that make me hate the person. Yeah, I will share what I thought about it with you through this essay. Hope you can read it carefully so that you can take the benefit of reading this essay in order to open your mind, what I mean is make you be "open-minded" person. Hehe 

 

Why Teens Smoke Cigarette?

 

What make teens smoke cigarettes? When we are talking about smoking, it is hard to deny that smoking is near with teens’ life nowadays. Smoking is like a lifestyle for them. A lot of teens smoke cigarettes freely almost everywhere. No matter they are allowed to smoke or not, they will smoke. No wonder if smoking extremely spreads wide in the youth society. The reasons why teens smoke cigarettes will be explained in this essay clearly.

According to Advance English Dictionary, smoking is “inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, and pipes” and “the act of smoking tobacco or other substances”. Smoking is done by people, especially teens nowadays. Here are some reasons why teens smoke cigarettes.

The first is curiosity. One of the things that will be felt by the teens is feeling curious. This curiosity force them to try everything, include to smoke cigarettes.  The curiosity is felt when teens see the new thing or something that the others do but they do not do. In this case, teens feel curious with smoking not by accident. Teens can find man who smokes every day and everywhere, in the morning, noon, evening and in the home, supermarket, park even in the school.  When all man that they find is a smoker and they are not, they will interest to smoke cigarette too.

The second is smoker “look like” success person. Yeah, this statement appears because the advertisement show like that. People who smoke are rich, optimist, creative, and success in the advertisement. Teens watch the advertisement every day. Then they are impressed by that. Finally, teens start to smoke cigarettes.

 

The third is near with beautiful girls. It is can be seen from the advertisement too. Most of the advertisement take beautiful lady as the figure that always accompany the success man. Teens nowadays ids flattered if they have beautiful girl beside them. Then they are hypnotized to smoke cigarettes to get beautiful girl.

The fourth is person who do not smoke cigarettes will be judge as “unsocial” person. How could it be?  Actually I do not understand why and what is the relation between smoke or do not smoke and be social or unsocial person. But the fact has explained like that. So teens who do not want to be called as unsocial people should be a smoker.

The fifth is the cheap cigarettes. The cost of cigarette is cheap enough, and it is easy to be bought by the teens who usually have not have a job and do not have a lot of money in their pocket. So, teens can easily consume cigarettes, I mean smoke cigarettes.

The sixth is feeling great. Most of teens (boys and girls) think that smoking can make them become great and cool people. They do not care with the effect of smoking cigarettes as long as the other people see them as the great and cool people.

The seventh is environment factor. Environment is place to learn something new for the teens. If teens live in smoker environment, so automatically they will smoke as what they learn from their environment.

The eighth is not knowing the effect of smoking of cigarettes. If teens know and understand what are the effect of smoking cigarettes such as cancer, impotent, heart attack, and the other illnesses, surely they will not smoke cigarettes at all. Their unknowing lets them to smoke cigarettes.

From the explanation above we can take the conclusion that there are many reasons why teens smoke cigarettes. Cigarette do not only attack the "have" people but also the "poor" one. It spread in all level, no exception, and teens is included of the victim of smoking cigarettes.