Make Most Of It O Man Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

Sixty million odd years back from this day—
We like to call that strike disastrous
That hit the Earth at its age Cretaceous,
Sixty million is too far to us lay,
But a mere blink, a cosmic yesterday!

Poor dinosaurs had had no chance on Earth,
It changed man's history, our fate's morrow,
Wiped out the whip-lash when all life of worth,
But mankind did a new chapter borrow
From Fate, and dug a gigantic furrow.

So, humans must hail saviour asteroid
To end a saurian rule, rough as was tough,
And human history was writ from void;
Yet, man's failed to learn from Nature enough,
Would it, one distant morrow, call man's bluff?

Remember, man, ye were late at the shore,
And be the destiny's man-dinosaur!
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Manasaur1:A man dinosaur that might suffer the same fate of dinosaurs. An asteroid had recently a close encounter with the Earth and the mankind narrowly missed a major catastrophe, reminding of an event, eons back, when dinosaurs were wiped out. What if, in a repetition, mankind were to be eliminated?
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Happenings | 11.04.04 |