A SUN-ROASTED EARTH

POEM

Rivers keep on flowing

and one would wish

the rivers were to flow eternally.

With a gradual

halt, rivers get dried up in the

course of its journey

forcing the inhabitants

to face a slow but inevitable death.

Once upon a time

sorry, in our early days as children

we didn’t have

any kind of nightmares

of one day the rivers

would have a painful extinction with

the Sun day by day

showering rain of fire on earth

due to depletion of ozone layer.

Often I wonder

with days passing by

what would happen to

the organisms and the

sun-roasted earth as a whole?

Now that

unlike the days

our thoughts of a green earth

would exist till the

end of the world

we are caught in the web

of the fear of our existence

in peril and are in a

dead-hurry to bring down

the global warming….

That is something to cheer about….