The entire world watches and listens,
As the investigation remains,
Unsuccessful at finding remains,
From the Malaysian airplane,
That mysteriously went missing,
Underwater drones set in motion,
To the bottom of the ocean,
Hoping,
To find answers to hundreds of questions,
The one thing that was made clear,
Throughout this standstill,
Is that our oceans are not clear,
They have become
Underwater landfills,
Caused by years of illegal dumping and littering,
plastic bags, bottles, equipment for fishing,
People thought this stuff was disappearing,
But in reality it was being washed away by rain,
Into our drains,
Ending up floating
in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans, in batches,
accumulating to form underwater trash patches,
The size of Texas
Left to be ingested,
By marine life,
And human life because of the water that is trash infested
Scientist say,
For years we have ignored the clues,
Of this blatant abuse,
For example,
When trash was found in the stomachs of dead animals,
This is an issue we must immediately handle,
Luckily it made its way to shore through the Malaysian scandal,
The Amazing thing,
We are finally realizing it's time for a change,
At last,
Images of the underwater drones moving fast,
searching for the Malaysian plane,
Running into turbulence
From an Ocean full of trash.
-Geo Friend-Lee