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We have T.Vs, we watch for hours and hours
We turn blind to the beauties of flowers;
Crazy after vain expensive fashions
We ignore our throbbing inner passions;
We have cell phones; we talk and talk so long
We lost distinction betwixt right and wrong
We switch our gadgets on and let them run
Ignorant of fast power depletion;
We sit glued to our systems day and night
Losing our faculties-a miserable plight;
Browsing through maze of confused mass
Oh God! no more data, our wits at loss!
We burn our pockets by going to malls
On a buying spree losing ourselves like thralls;
We spend huge bundles with our credit card
While starving millions struggle hard;
Enslaved to plastics we create pollution
A self-made disaster without solution;
Drilling deeper into the inmost core
We turned our earth a desert with water no more;
Showing our status with multi-storeyed towers
We ruined ourselves wasting our powers;
Shut out from air and natural light
Self-imprisoned in flats we suffer our plight;
A thousand fold blast of aggravating sounds
A hellish pandemonium without any bounds;
In pursuit of pleasures, a wild goose chase
We miss true joy enmeshed in vicious maze;
No end to our desires at Nature's expense
We rob her precious bounties immense
Just because God gave us freedom divine
We do abuse distorting Nature's design;
Riches grow fast by unscrupulous means
While begging poverty everywhere seen ;
With inhuman intellect we dissect poor beasts
And torture them without compassion least
To feast ourselves and for cosmetic needs
Extinction of creatures we never heed;
Glutting on vain junk-food we pride ourselves
Living in artificial ways we kill ourselves;
Addicted to smoke, drinks and drugs
We do consume poison to the inmost dregs;
We poison plants with chemical manure;
And suffer from maladies beyond our cure;
We changed our holy rivers to dirty drains
We filled our earth with dust just for our gains;
We clone strange creatures defying laws
Like witches of yore with monstrous claws;
With radars, robots and nuclear wars
We perish at last like dinosaurs;
No sense of charity and service exists
Our wishes grow on, an unending list;
While maladies grow with astronomical speed
Our doctors prescribe drugs with reckless greed;
Our devilish plans even polluted space
To occupy planets, a Satanic race;
By our insatiable greed and craze
We doom ourselves by Nature's rage;
Denying God we live like devils
Gross corruption, the source of all ills;
We lost our link with past and earnest faith
Without a goal we suffer ourselves to death;
Exceeding our limits in everything
The knell of destruction we ourselves ring;
Averse to natural ways we ourselves doom
We degraded this world to a den of gloom;
Oh, stop this self-destructive ways, oh God!
Nature's gentle warnings let's not discard;
A simple harmonious life in peaceful ways
Makes this creation happy always.
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(Dedicated to those noble persons who dedicate their lives
to protection of environmental purity)
29th June, 2014 Gutala Somaseshu
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