The ocean being a clean blue,
But you look at the truest view.
Full of filthy and spoiled junk,
It's a reminder of how selfish we have become.
Plastic bottles here and there
It's like the ocean is a dump
It's like the world has come to not care
Sea animals stuck in plastic
We must take action before it's too late.

Yeraldin Cendejas Chavez is a 12-year-old poet from California.
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