Section --- I
In the dark winding caves with narrow ways
With scary boulders and rocky columns
With scattered bones, ashes and grinning skulls
With stone-made axes, spear-tips and tools of flint
With odd figures and beasts scratched on dusky walls
Like primitive men seeking shelter in caves;
Engaged in daily strife with savage beasts and foes
In caves of gloom in far away African wilds
Or Slovanian snow-ridden icy caverns;
Our world survived outer hazards and Nature’s fury;
Yet bestial urge and destructive self engulfed
Man’s Flickering flame of wisdom
around;
What light can open when dense darkness rules
The gaping mouths of caverns within his mind?
His willful closing of his narrow vision?
( I I )
The ice age cometh and stark icicles
Icebergs
and crags of gigantic shapes
And bone-biting chilly air may gnaw our
flesh:
Yet before,
man’s mind hardened with bloodthirsty craze
A hollow
icy cave with gaping gloom ;
Devoid of noble
thoughts to light his onward ways :
He lost his
inborn bright spark of heaven
He sank into
the depths of lust and endless greed :
We shut our feelings
in dark night of despair
Our
so-called knowledge led us into blind alleys
And men like
their primitive predecessors
May smash their skulls
and tear each other
Eating the
flesh of brethren and bleeding hearts :
Or worse
like a foolish miner petards the entire world
With dire atomic weapons
with perverted mind
To end all
lives in disastrous ways to dust.
And then we
will not spare our bones even
Or grinning
skulls for future to realize
No fossils
and no wrecks of steep-sky scrapers
To guess our
heritage and mad, mad craze.
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Albert Einstein :
“The
unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking,
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” Even a 'limited'
nuclear war could trigger cruel nuclear winters and global famine.
1) African wilds ---- reference to the Pork-Epic cave in the
east of Ethiopia where cave paintings are seen done by primitive humans nearly
sixty thousand years ago.
2) Slovanian snow-ridden
icy caves ---- reference to Snezna Jama cave which is full of snow and artistic
natural ice creations, and stalactites (white pillars formed by dripping of
mineral salts form the cave roofs.)
3) Icy age cometh --- A long-term reduction in temperatures of
earth’s surface with expansion of continental and polar ice-sheets and Alpine glaciers. This occurs due to increase in carbon emissions and greenhouse gases
and also due to explosion of nuclear bombs.
4) petard ----- a wooden box filled with explosives (blast )
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14th July, 2018 Somaseshu Gutala
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