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!
