The Shaking Earth
You call them Sandy, Andrew, Catherine and Neelam
The powers of the skies and the blue oceans
Have begun to work on the lands you own.
Many Americans thrown into misery and rendered homeless,
The President of the land articulating the power of the Sandy!
Many Philippians and Indians are never defended
And their kings mantle the role of cynics!
As ever and ever before we see the indifference
And unheeding goes the warning of nature.
She has been vociferous of late,
She knows to behave like a task mistress.
Man`s folly of living an intoxicated life
Far from the small woes of his grandfather, the ape
Has begun to show him the door of extinction
Like the dinosaurs and the larva were ever once.
Stop here brother, or else we are all doomed.
You and I are sure to drown somewhere
Down this stream of escalated materialism and fun
And none will remain to shed a tear of regret.
The scriptures and the oracles will call it a day
The gospelers and the puritans will look upwards and pray
For a while, it will be a dream come true.
But soon will cease everything, everything my brother.
The shake is just a reminder of
Things hitherto unknown, my brother.
Beware of the steps of the ladder we climb on
For it has long lost its touch with the ground!
poem by M.d Dinesh Nair
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