God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path.
— Ecclesiastes 7: 29, OT, The Holy Bible.
God created man as righteous
But he turned gluttonous and avaricious
He is not just content with fulfilling his need
He turned coveted and craves for everything out of greed
He kills his own brethren with grudge
He fells the trees to make his sledge and hedge
He kills the birds for pleasures
He hunts the animals to while away his leisure
He pollutes the air out of greed
He defiles the water for his creed
The hills, the forests
The brooks, the creeks
The sky, the air
On every thing he sets his ugly eyes and laid his demonic hands
Proliferation of his cars and mo-bikes surging out halfburnt hydrocarbons
Fridges and ACs for his cool comfort emitting hot chlorofluorocarbons
He doesn’t care if earth’s temperature soars and perforates ozone layer
Advocating for dangerous BT crops, he metamorphosed into their supporting lawyer
Shunning organic manures, he uses chemical pesticides
They killed not just sparrows, but also cause passive genocides
Discarding his traditional cloth bag, he makes polythene hand bags in no dearth
Piling up plastic waste, thwarts ground waters to percolate into earth
He invented computers, mobiles and a plethora of electronic gadgets
Carelessly dumped silicon and nickel cadmium wastes sadly turned for him deadly dragnets
Radio frequencies of his cell towers drives away honey bees
Humanity may have to starve for food due to the lack of pollination freebies
Indiscriminate tapping of ground water by him for industries, beverages and colas
To promote noxious industrial progress, his banks are vying with loan melas
Only concerned with his economics, he has over looked ecology
With his degraded mentality and morality, he thinks not of bio-degradability
Felling trees raping forests
Selling dwellings displacing harvests
Billowing smoke from factory chimneys
Burrowing mines in green woods and hills
Choking ore and coal dust in port city window sills
Millions of cigars and cigarettes coming out of tobacco mills
Unchecked flow of toxic wastes in to water bodies, as he wills
Un-rained clouds, razing cyclones
Rising levels of mercury, parching throats
Failed crops, starved souls
Polythene bags eating cattle
Unchecked sale of liquor bottle
These are the indelible marks of his unforgivable wrong
Oh Man! don’t harm the nature any more, or else it will boomerang!
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