3 Poems by Max Habel

2018 Winner, Middle School Poetry

 

Another Animal Dead

Before the world turned evil,

Killing animals was only something you did,

For food,

But now,

We humans will kill anything,

Ants,

Birds,

Deer,

Squirrels,

Chipmunks,

All just to kill them,

To feel the excitement,

Of killing another soul,

 

After we kill it,

We take pictures with it,

All nice and cheery,

With an arm around it,

As if you were friends,

But really,

You’re his worst enemy,

It’s not like you stopped to admire,

This beauty of nature,

Stopped to care that it was a soul in our world,

But instead you shot it,

And it died.

 

Why I Fear the Future

Everyone says,

That the day that teleportation is invented,

Will be the greatest day ever,

But nobody thinks,

Of the destruction it will deal,

People will be able to teleport,

Into other’s houses,

Onto the street,

In front of random strangers,

And do whatever they want with them,

It is scary,

So many deaths in the invention,

Of teleportation.

 

War

War,

It is a very horrible thing,

It represents the community of the world,

Folding on itself,

Killing thousands of people,

If you think about it,

We are literally killing ourselves,

Shrinking the world,

Until we are nothing.