WAR OF THE WORLD

The war of the world  is closing in! 


And this time,  your life is at stake! 

Bullets pierce, and tear flesh and life

Bombs explode, and shred dismembered organs

More blood flows on the roads

Than any heart or  vein

Oh friend! 

Oh Where will you run to!

 Oh where will you hide! 

The war of the world is closing in! 

Soon ! You too will be dead!

Like all the other million souls! 

All your dreams and achievements!

All you pleasures, desires and hopes!

All that you have, and all that you care about

All your loved ones,  you so love to protect

All of them, and you, will be soon miserably dead!

And this  time ! Where will you run! Where will you hide ! 

This is the war of the world! This war !

Is not  in a distant troubled nation! 

Nor is it in some radical mind of a terrorist

Not even in the controller of the controller of drones

But Deep within your own hatred ridden heart! 

The shield of hypocrisy will not protect you

The trench of religion will not guard you

The vest of  self-pursuit will not help you 

You were foolish to pursue the arms race of hatred!

You were foolish to use the nuclear weapons of selfishness!

Alas! Its too late now ! For you, and for humanity!

The tree of life is burning! 

The earth is soaking in your blood! 

The oceans turn red, and the waves wash away history! 

Alas! what will remain as the tombstone of man! 

PLASTIC FOSSILS

Waving blatant flags of victory, on this frosty peak of evolution

Oh mighty mankind!

Can’t you see the doomed horizon?

Can’t you see your numbered days?

Still warm from the pantry of the primordial soup

 With selection, variability and adaptation

 You humbly entered this treacherous game of natural selection!

From growing organelles and spines; to limbs and brains

You have indeed come a long way!

From tree trunks and dangling tails

Clubs and spears and torching fires

To guns and bombs, and even medicine!

You steadily scaled this evolutionary ladder

Yet!  Oh mighty mankind!

Why have you not learnt to love one another?

Stuck with single minded simplex minds

Clinging to the delusion of the ‘self ‘

Driven by the pleasures of the present and proximal   

Gathering with greed, and fending with hate

Your narrow bread basket of self-interest!

In this colossal game of the Survival of the fittest! 

How long can you remain the formidable?

  

Sentience, person-

hood and consciousness have blessed you!

And have made you rise above the shoulders of the rest of nature’s creation  

But by the virtue of having grown a head; a head full of gyriform grey intellect

Is it not your duty to sustain the helpless body of life?

With eyes to see beyond the chin; minds to think in anticipation

And intelligence, even to offer self regulation

Why is it still, you keep chewing at your own feet!

With teeth ragged with selfishness, digging into your own rotting flesh

Drinking the contaminated blood off your very own frail neck

How long can you hold up your pompous head?

Having pushed, the all embracing planet to this very sapless brink  

It’s not survival of the fittest; but survival of the sustainable

That can save this bleeding planet’s fate

Oh mighty mankind!

Learn to love, and learn to live! Before it’s too late!

Learn to sustain the rest of nature’s creation!  

For a sixty million years from now

When sentient lizards shall again roam!

Only your plastic fossils will speak! 

MALICE IN WONDERLAND

Malice in wonderland

Vineyards of wrath

Fountains of anger          

Look what’s it brought!

Hurricanes of violence

From the eye of hate

Man and misery  

What a dismal state!

From greed to gruesome

Regressive, all the way

Stuck to his belligerence

How long can he stay?