Paradise No More

Those mortals who have a history of About five million years having survived Many calamities: fires floods viruses Hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes Man made wars and environmental events A minute ball in cosmic terms, afloat In nothingness of space held by tug of Neighboring planets. Shooting stars Hit and Miss Some burrowing leaving craters or Vanish in black hole. Foretelling fate of Worn out planets in the universe, spent Themselves maintaining sovereignty over The vast suspended universe that is Immeasurable on all accounts which Makes it unmanageably immense And boundless. A minute globe in the midst Of infinite cosmos occupied the Central place in our limited logic A people whose ancestors once expelled From heaven now teeter on extinction And are at the brink of destroying earth Nature cries in the form of jolting rumbles Of earth quakes and loud roar of tornadoes Sends repeated warnings of forest fires Raises ambient temperature of the earth Dotted with torrential rains causing floods If we fail to heed cries of nature and See what is staring us in the face we Are bound to lose like the dying sequoia No amount of foil can stand fury of Nature. To challenge it is to spit in the wind. © 2021 Aman