The Black Pelican Poem by Suren Sarathkumara

Thick oil continue to spill
Gushing and rushing out from drill
Hydro-smoke in immense salt
As infernal as it might smell


Infused cream of only earth
What it accrued from old birth
Made him all his lavish life
Her callous son thinks its still worth


Born to ignore and selfish
Asian, African, American, British
Thinking right from up to down
In eternal fray for global crown


We didn’t do it so we are sleepy
It’s your fault you devil BP
Though it ushered for our brands
Let us wash our clean hands


Oil streaks on surface seas
Leaves the shame of utter derbies
Who cares it kills eco-life
Who messed it should deserve the strife


The black pelican off gulf Mexico
Covered oil stiffen when wind blow
It hunted for it’s seldom meat
That oily fish could yet not eat


Strategic political advantage of
Ever disastrous oil leak
Media sold the pathetic portray
Of pelicans stringy beak


Principle policy of human first
Political security is kept at best
Superior they are in mind
Not supreme unless they are kind


Its just some ones else’s fault
What just ruined is the only world
The intelligence can’t just realize
That everyone’s hand will save the plight


Earthlings cry for salvation
Some of them die in starvation
Extravagance some need to preserve
Hell is waiting for them that deserve


The ancestors didn’t give them the world
They borrow it from their children is told
May save the planet for children’s sake
Power politics is just a fake