If You Cut a Tree; You Cut Your Own Mother – Poems on Environment , Wildlife , Mother Nature , Global Warming by Nikhil Parekh - HTML preview

59. JUST A MINUTE TO DESTRUCTION 

The tree took a century to grow to unprecedented

limits; blossoming into boundless branches and

resplendent foliage,

And it took you just a minute to chop it to the

ground; with barbaric strokes of your gleaming

pickaxe.

The mountains took thousands of years to evolve; with

their summits towering handsomely towards the sky;

camouflaged in a heap of pristine snow,

And it took you just a minute to pulverize their

blissful demeanor to flimsy ash; bombarding them

ruthlessly with your hi-tech and contemporary bombs.

The colorful tribes trespassing on the planet took

several decades to spawn; indulging into a myriad of

festivity and sacrosanct beliefs,

And it took you just a minute to make them the most

acrimonious of enemies; poisoning their minds against

each other; with your deceiving and manipulative talk.

The tantalizingly salty waters of the ocean took

centuries to form; harboring an ingratiating variety

of fish and vivacious coral weeds,

And it took you just a minute to adulterate its entire

visage; dropping abominable buckets of crude oil from

the ship.

The atmosphere took infinite births to be created;

kissing every part of the globe with its silken

caress,

And it took you just a minute to pollute it

indiscriminately; blowing obnoxious gases from your

vehicle; at a full throttle.

The soil took millions of years to preserve wells of

precious liquid; entrapping droplets of scintillating

water deep within its core,

And it took you just a minute to savagely plunder its

harmony; inserting your hydraulic and contemporary

drilling equipment to empty it; till it cried.

The cow wandering timidly on the slopes took loads of

agonizing time to fill the colossal buckets with its

milk; each globule of white oozing having the

fortitude to outclass the most ingenious of vitamins

single handedly,

And it took you just a minute to blend it with cheap

saliva; to augment its quantity; before you

commercially sold it to unsuspecting customers.

The old men and women spent their entire lifetimes to

incessantly  worship and revere their culture and

heritage; sacrificed their heads to prevent even a

single blemish from infiltrating into their land,

And it took you just a minute to ruthlessly transgress

across them; satanically maraud their ideals; and

embracing alien winds just because they suited your

taste.

The World Trade Center took countless months to

construct; sheltered thousands of individuals; some of

the most innovative brains from all across the

continent,

And it took you just a minute to squelch it to bellows

of black dust; using your cowardly and diabolical mind

to smash it with airplanes; having innocent people

trapped inside.

It took more than times ever perceivable to harness

the spirit of love; spreading it like wild fire into

the heart of every human being walking on this soil;

every palpable entity gallivanting with a glimmer of

hope in its eyes,

And it took you just a minute to completely destroy

its mesmerizing essence; leaving it no scope at all to

flourish with all your killings; war and hostility.