The poem describes the pressure to smoke cigarettes that many people feel, even if they initially say they don't want to smoke. It notes that once people start hanging around other smokers and being in smoking situations, they often end up smoking too. The poem warns that smoking is killing people slowly from the inside and makes them look sickly and pale over time. It encourages seeking help or talking to the author if struggling with the pressure to smoke.
1. Look around,
What do you see?
A lot of people smoking,
What irony!
You say you don’t want to
But soon you’ll start too,
The pressure is enormous,
So what can you do?
It’s just like the lot of them,
They started with a no,
But when they came up to it,
They just crawled down below.
Having said that now,
Can you not see?
What it is doing to them,
Killing them from underneath...
Look for Help, Look for Me!
by
Rachel Ciappara Guerreiro
Class 4.7
All of them are sickly pale,
With a yellow/brown stain
Found all the way!
With no clue of how really
Bad they look,
It makes you look away!
I’ve nothing else to say
Since I am always here.
If you need anything
Just come to me, dear!
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