25 The Lorax

As a child, my favorite character was the Lorax.
My grandparents laughed and remarked “he’s a liberal”
The Lorax loved his home and his friends,
he protected the forest and those that lived there.
I wanted to protect those same things.
My grandparents raised me on a farm,
nothing but plains and pastures for miles…
Until the developers came.

Every year, my grandpa rebuilds his fences,
his pastures get smaller and smaller,
the forests and plains surrounding him are gone
replaced by the same house, over and over,
just a different color, the layouts are the same,
the cars are the same, the residents are the same.

Houses that shouldn’t be worth the cheap material used to build them,
yet they sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars,
I’ll never have,
I’ll never have the pastures, I’ll never have the plains,
Once the animals die, we won’t have the farm either

Now I tell my grandparents jokingly,
“I guess I’ll never meet the Lorax.”