Message In a Bottle-2

Message in a bottle Here is my greetings and message to you all, my dear ones Who would be populating this earth again After my generation gets wiped out on the 21st of December 2012* But, then, what a let down, I have to fall back upon This antiquated paper and pen and a blasted bottle to store it in Because there is no way I could text or e mail to you, Like I am used to, this day, that let us soar so high with computers, Nuclear bombs and spacecrafts that whizz past celestial bodies As if it is child’s play; but all the same dragged us down to moral depths Where one of us could massacre a whole class of kindergarten kids Or plot mindless terror attacks in the name of imagined wrongs And wrong premises or rape and then kill a five year old Or an unsuspecting girl who walked into a wrong bus Thank God I am still left with a little sense to share with you my friends Whatever freedom you may happen to enjoy, Whatever material progress you may make Never use it or let it be used to trample on moral and ethical values Guard and enforce those values in society with eternal vigil For there will be none to protect and promote them, Mark my words, except YOURSELVES, because such values Have no commercial value. For, politicians, preachers, prophets And their followers, by the very nature of their preoccupations, Would continue to divide and disrupt, despite their bluff and bluster About universal love, brotherhood and peace, the very values That would be suffering atrophy under their very noses. * The Mayan calender ends on this date (21st Dec 12)giving rise to speculations by doomsday prophets that the world too is going to end on this date. 20th Dec 12 For Catie's Message in a bottle contest