If Man Had Remained Ape Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

At human history's preamble,
Grave error of Nature, I oft wonder,
Perhaps evolution's grim gamble,
Or should I even say: gravest blunder?

Flora flourished much before fauna's reign,
Last came man to master and manoeuvre,
Things went well till his greed grew no greater,
Things worsened till to end in acid rain.

And in an over-riding greed to grow,
In futile bid to raise his signature,
He sacrificed his children's safe morrow,
In making his selfish day, marred Nature.

The green heritage of millions of years,
This man of grey cells, but far little sense,
Gambled away in greedy endeavours,
After flood flowed, he thinks of building fence.

Had he remained an ape—whom he had tailed,
I doubt if he had the mother earth failed.
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Reflections | 02.06.07 |