When a Tree Is Felled

When a tree is felled....! When a tree is felled, a sad ring of deathknell, With it goes for many - their tiny places to dwell! How much of Earth will man's greed consume ? Very many forms discovered by him to subsume; Bottomless appetite you expect to satiate, And his thoughts so contrive only to ingratiate! Every stroke of the axe and gnaw of the saw, Spells doom at the hands of that ominous paw! Aren't trees - balancing poles protecting this rock, From heat and for rains during this tightrope walk! Uses varied and very many by their sheer presence, Must stop felling them under all and any pretense! Trees exhale precious oxygen that built many a life, Inhaling noxious gases produced by man, 'oh' in rife! Varieties of food they provide on which we live on, Yet, Ungrateful as ever, we cut now to later bemoan. Self will of a man cull them, falsely claiming strife, It is his own string of life that he cuts with a knife. Takes decades for them to grow in size and stature; Only a few minutes for us to dismiss and forfeiture! What right and authority is human vested with? When superiority he claims is only a blind eye myth! Inter-woven life is obfuscated to meet his own end, Obliterating efforts of good men, yet many refusing to mend. Trees are the source for basics - food, water and shelter; Man strikes at the root, leaving no room in time to alter! Enough has been done in the last twenty odd decades, Showing man's true colours against visible facades. If it is an event where man is pitted against another man, Spares nothing - hook or crook, for his way alone to span! Preternatural tendency of man alone to strive, Killing, 'spirit of co-existence' in which all life jive! Warp and weft in whole in which trees are essentials, Warp and woof - why man ignores their credentials! Claiming to be highly evolved, will just not suffice, Spirit of 'live and let live' - make this heaven's orifice!