Nature Needs Nurture Poem by Gautam Sen

In a place
I happened to be once.
Only nature reigning over there;
Me, I felt alien out and out,
They ignored me all throughout.
Felt ashamed, still I took the chance.

Very little gap I found
that the mountain
had with the sky;
The streaming river
kissing the lush green pampas
with her frequent impish splash,
carried the majestic mountain trembling,
stamped on her open breast.

So serene it was-
so charmed was the rest,
The virgin nature there
had her sway in full swing.
Every flower that bloomed,
every bird that sang -
all were parts of it;
except me the oldie,
the only human being.

Now let me tell you why
I was feeling guilty
and I was feeling shy.
We know all
that nature got
in a city - our sty.

Needed or not,
we took a lot from her,
never faltered to slaughter.
To exist on the earth
we only squeezed her,
clutched her more and more -
snatched her all simple mirth.

What do we do with you,
Oh Mother Nature?
Crude and brutal,
cruel and fatal,
is thoroughly unfair.
Time is there,
resolute be all of us-
Nature must get its due
Care and only Care!