I wrote this for my children.
To help explain how a world can change.
And hope they'll grow to help.
Covered
in prickly spines
it
crawls along the reef
multiple
thorny arms
searching
for coral to eat.
Two
rows of tiny feet
help
the star to hold
and
grasp onto the coral-
the
damage not foretold.
The
thorny crowd has grown
to
over a million strong
moving
through tropical waters
where
plankton blooms are l o n g .
And
now the Barrier Reef
in
danger of losing its colour
needs
some help from us
to
improve the quality of its water.
