What If.... Poem by Mohabeer Beeharry

What if...

We like to pretend to forget.
We like to think
That whatever we do,
Everything will go on the same old way anyway.
This cosmos will never fold.

We are right,
Everything will go on,
Just the same.
Not because of our will,
But his.

Look back down the avenues of our history,
And see how many times
The Maker could have closed the book on us.

He came down to lead humanity
From darkness and ignorance
To light
And He had to deal with the demons in us.

He came as a king
And we banished him
For fourteen long years
To one of the toughest forest in the world.

He sent his Son
To save us from greed
To show us the power of love

We tacked Him on two poles
On a hill.
Stop a while, love
Stop a while.

Remember the tsunamis
The quakes
Remember the volcanoes,
And the floods.

Repercussions of our own actions,
The blood we shed
The tears and the groans
Of disembodied souls
Lost in the ether.

Remember one more thing,
Everything on this earth
Be it you
Me
Or this earth,
carries in itself
The seeds of self destruction.

What if The Lord decides
To close this cosmic book again?
It has happened before.

We know the answer.
But we pretend to forget.