The delirium struck him in the middle of the night,
he just couldn't forget that hideous sight,
that moment of truth had shattered his life away,
he dreamt the nightmare every single day,
the shock of the loss was a miserable ruth,
but he had to live with the inconvenient truth.
His loss was more than that of a man without legs,
or of that of a child who everyday begs,
or of that of a father on his son's death,
or of that of a mother and child in snow without a sheath,
for his loss had garnered from his own distaste,
he wanted to undo all but it was too late.
He lost his family, friends,siblings and all,
he cried and cried but it was too late a call,
for he did nothing then to stop his downfall,
when warnings were avoided, ignored and then stalled,
what is worse he has no one to share his grief,
because the entire mankind itself weeps.
For the negligence of yesterday they all pay today,
for all the sins committed they pray today,
they know that even they wouldn't last long,
for the nature has already struck its dong,
and now we all pay for torturing it,
and for all the harm we did to it,
The earth has started spinning hotter as they say,
for it cannot tolerate anymore our tormenting stay,
for it has been hoping against hope for us to change,
but we have been showing no sympathy to her vulnerable stage,
This is the future left for for all of us to see,
if we don't take out mother earth seriously.
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No rock show = no saving the environment. :P
ReplyDeleteThis poem + an Iron Maiden song reminds me of a poem I read which had a different context but could just as easily be used here.
ReplyDelete''Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink''
Polar ice caps melting spell doom for already decreasing land area.
Awesome poem, can think of ones that describe the beauty and wrath of nature, but not the peril it is in.
You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.
-Harvey Diamond
Couldn't have guessed what it was about after reading the first stanza, to imagine someone grieving for the environment in such a way is just not expected.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
A complete surprise package...the moment i read it, was caught up in the richness of it's meaning...what took me by surprise was the allusion created in-b/w the lines and nothing could have been better than this beautiful ending. Kudos..a great job done!
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