Let Us

The stars saw it coming

The eye of an infant saw it coming

Drops of pure water saw it too

But the human had no clue

Captive of greed

He kept felling trees

Wounding Mother Earth

Deaf to her pleas

She screamed in pain

"This is sheer madness, not gain!"

The stars heard and the infant too

The waves began gushing anew

But the human took no cue

A captive of greed

He kept felling trees

As his ruthless axe tore apart

His mother's tender, loving heart

Now barren, bereft of feminine grace

Repeatedly attacked, raped, disgraced

She lay with frozen tears in her eyes

Sick of man's hypocrisy and lies

No amount of solace could suffice

She knew he will have to pay a heavy price

"I am dying", she cried out

Her death call was so loud

That the stars heard and the infant too

The river rushed furious dark waters blue

Man still did not take the cue ...

He danced on the stumps of the trees

Oblivious of Mother Earth's anguish

And her pleas ...

He dreamt of a new posh car

His wife of a solitaire without a scar

His son of parties and booze

Intercepted with women and snooze

The sacred thread of the universe,

Mother Earth and man, once in unity,

Was long forgotten, lay broken,

Defying the great magic of the trinity

To retrieve some sanity, balance and serenity

The solar system then conspired

To save the planet Earth till infinity

"Beware of Nature's fury!"

Thundered Brahma from the angry sky

"Cease to chop trees, turning the green land dry!

Look at your mother; wounded to the core,

Whispering her last good-bye

You, the foolish, save her, love her, protect her!

How can you bear to see her cry?

Awaken now to save her, hard you must try!

You have plenty of wounded trees

Stacked in your stores

Enough to exchange mansions worth crores!"

"But I can cut a few more trees", thought the selfish man,

"Before the thundering sky pours

And then safely shut my doors!"

Vishnu could take no more -

"Time has come to settle the score!"

He beseeched Shiva to arrest and seize

Man's never ending suicidal greed

And restore some peace ...

Victim of poisonous dreams

Man paid no heed

To the infant's ever louder warning screams

"Flood the land", ordered Shiva,

"Deprive man of all his means

We need to arrest his evil thoughts

And sweep the land clean!"

The universe watched, the stars

And the infant too

As the waves swept away everything,

From the old to the new

The cars, the solitaires, the crystal wine glasses

The toothy saws, the ropes and the cruel axes

The insensitive humans now wailed in agony,

Running helter-skelter

On the very same wounded Earth,

Looking for some shelter

The TV channels covered

The tragedy of men sinister

Who lit the funeral pyres

Of their wives, children and sisters ...

Let us rebuild the bridges with the lovely trees

Let us sing to the flowers and hum with the bees

Let us revive the glory of the lovely planet Earth

And become its worthy earthlings!