Our Crumbling Mansions Poem by Ravi Panamanna

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE TRAGEDY
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The sprawling twin towers,
Man's ambition and achievement,
In moments disappeared in the winds
To leave only a rising dust.

A world was shaken,
Striken was the stream of life.
It was a heart rendering cry,
A nighmare from the meads of life.

It was a moment of terror,
Life was in endless tears.
Upon the banks of Hudson river
Life was in toto smeared.

It was a great perish,
How can the world cherish?
And into deafening ears
How can a paining heart reach?

Where are our happy dales,
What is our future, co-existence?
If man is threatening peace,
Where is our hermitage-in the desert?
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What I find now-a-days is that co-existence is becoming a harder concept. Man is under threat from his own fellow beings. This cannot happen. An individual is free to have have his religion and views expressed but it should not harm others. Mutual respect is what we need for a better co-existence. Everybody has this idea in his head but the problem is that we expect to be respected in the first place before we started respecting the rest of the world! In other words, we apply conditions for our mutual respect. This is the difficulty. It should be unconditional.