1 Nature too seems now dull and mute
Has she become vexed with our attitude?
Has she become averse to our treatment rude?
Crammed by our selfish ways, she seems to refute
Our so called ultra-modern living style
Wherever man dwells, he tends to destroy and defile.
2. No poetic enchantments now we feel
No heavenly mystical realms we see
No holy meditations silent and free
No musical wonders our voices reveal
Nature seems static like a plastic bouquet in a jar
Enslaved to tools, man moved away too far.
3
Like machines we live and follow rigid rules
Our acts and thoughts mechanized
entire
We bartered our souls, feelings and
desires
We made our children slaves to tools
For wealth and power our own people
we kill
Desensitized kids view movies of murderous thrill
4. Has Nature become lifeless
and dead?
Has she lost her charms and
Promethean fire?
No flash of noble thoughts she doth
inspire;
Nature now viewed as stuff to
garner wealth instead
Why this perverted turn and empty
phase?
Why man like a beast drags his dull,
dreary days?
5. In
truth nature still shines in her pristine form
Ever benign, bounteous with beautiful
charm
Our tarnished minds bereft of vision
and calm
Can’t view her with adoration and
feelings warm.
The modern world thinks eccentric and
proud
If man pours out his feelings in true colors loud.
6.
We can’t speak out earnest from our hearts
Behind the veneer of decency, our
feelings we hide
We tend to move with flow, not turn
against the tide;
In the vortex of dry routine, we are
caught
Bereft of free exchange, shrunken like frozen ice
As civilized ones, we struggle to live
in disguise.
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