O Green Brothers
Eons ago, when the Earth was lifelessAnd its air was toxic and noxious
Bravely you stepped in that hellish place,
Green angels! You had come to save us.
You changed the planet from a valley of death
In your body you absorbed all poison
And purified the air with your own breath
You prepared the place for lives to be born.
Which was a burning hot desert previously
Beneath your shade cooled to a better place to live
You gave all animals shelter in your body
And provided them with every sustenance to thrive.
In your arms first human children had grown
You provided them clothes with your leaves
You donated your body to build their home
You brought in rain to enhance their fields.
Today when we've polluted the atmosphere
You try to clear away each and every toxin
Even after death you transform into fuel
And keep the wheel of civilization running.
Who has the right to tear your leaf?
Who is so heartless to chop you down?
Those butchers have to know, with each strike
The seed of their own destruction is sown.
When those brutes pierce your bark with knife
After you provided them with livelihood
And supplied them food, meds and the air of life
Their coffins get destined to be made of thy wood.
The Emblem Of Life
The night began to melt in day,
The darkness in sky began to fade away
In the first glow from the skyline....
He wasn't there to awake at the end of night.
The red globe lifted its head
From its under horizon bed
And flooded the world in shine from heaven....
He wasn't there to bathe in first light.
Across the field swam the breeze
To its rhythm danced the grasses
The birds sang to the beauties....
He wasn't there amidst all those delight.
The sky was dressed in sapphire blue,
At her crown a topaz was glowing like fire,
We were sweating while walking along the street....
He wasn't there to shade us from heat.
Perhaps the sky realised all?
In the afternoon she changed to
Her mourning dress of dark black....
She spread white flowers in memory of him
And wept, wept profusely over his death,
Her cry reverberated through the atmosphere....
The wind joined the mourning,
She prayed for him to rest in peace,
The bushes and grasses bent their heads...
I threw myself on the ground,
And hugged tightly what had survived
Of him from the axes of butchers...
His blood dried at the edges of the stump,
The blood he spilled to fulfill the greed
Of some devils who would never be satisfied...
Would the green angel be noble enough to forgive
Them who dared to hurt him after he had
Bestowed them with every essential of life?
The moon soothed us with her serene smile
And I too smiled through tears, when I saw
Our prayers had not gone unanswered...
Kissed by the gentle breeze of evening
A little sapling was waving at us
From the edge of the grave of dead angel!
I prayed with the whole nature for it,
For it to defy all attacks of human-devils
And thrive and flourish as an emblem of life.
The night began to melt in day,
The darkness in sky began to fade away
In the first glow from the skyline....
He wasn't there to awake at the end of night.
The red globe lifted its head
From its under horizon bed
And flooded the world in shine from heaven....
He wasn't there to bathe in first light.
Across the field swam the breeze
To its rhythm danced the grasses
The birds sang to the beauties....
He wasn't there amidst all those delight.
The sky was dressed in sapphire blue,
At her crown a topaz was glowing like fire,
We were sweating while walking along the street....
He wasn't there to shade us from heat.
Perhaps the sky realised all?
In the afternoon she changed to
Her mourning dress of dark black....
She spread white flowers in memory of him
And wept, wept profusely over his death,
Her cry reverberated through the atmosphere....
The wind joined the mourning,
She prayed for him to rest in peace,
The bushes and grasses bent their heads...
I threw myself on the ground,
And hugged tightly what had survived
Of him from the axes of butchers...
His blood dried at the edges of the stump,
The blood he spilled to fulfill the greed
Of some devils who would never be satisfied...
Would the green angel be noble enough to forgive
Them who dared to hurt him after he had
Bestowed them with every essential of life?
The moon soothed us with her serene smile
And I too smiled through tears, when I saw
Our prayers had not gone unanswered...
Kissed by the gentle breeze of evening
A little sapling was waving at us
From the edge of the grave of dead angel!
I prayed with the whole nature for it,
For it to defy all attacks of human-devils
And thrive and flourish as an emblem of life.
© All rights reserved.
Comments
Post a Comment
Please let us know what do you think about it.