Ruthless Acts Poem by Tirupathi Chandrupatla

A tree with a huge trunk
Stands by the town's
Busy gas station
On the main street.

Wooden electric poles
And telephone poles too
Stand erect like sentinels
With a web of hanging wires.

The tree is stripped
Of most of its limbs
Only a few branches
Stretch out horizontally.

The tree can't have
Enough new leaves
Flowers or some fruit
To sustain it for long.

This tree shows man's
Dominance on nature
Ruthless careless acts
On one which has no voice.