Oh! My Dear Man! Poem by Subbaraman N V

Oh! My dear man! Think where do we go from here
In this beautiful world created by God so near
With all generous and great five elements dear
The space, the air, the fire, the wind, the water!

Love, peace, joy, happiness, harmony and health
Sure one should love to dream and possess as wealth
Alas! we struggle, fight, adopt ways and means unfair
To amass fleeting material wealth that leads to despair!

Man's greed to possess and amass more and more
Weans him away from the gift of nature far and far
A beautiful house with a garden and trees around
Yielded place to multi storied building abound!

Agricultural land around the town and city
Yielding place to the housing colony, a pity
Tall and nice eucalyptus groves in Ooty
Yielded its place to hotels making it dirty!

Beautiful plants removed, useful trees cut
Ecology disturbed, flora-fauna scuttled
Global warming raising sky high and put
The wonderful world to suffer and troubled!

Water sources closed, water courses changed
We build not homes but give room for droughts and floods
Oh! My dear man! Think and act, lest you and me
Will leave nothing but misery as our legacy!