POEM
Looking from afar
I see dark columns of smoke billowing out of a factory
spilling over to a vast areas of sky
in the midst of dark green woods.
It seems the factory has in no way
caused ecological damage.
Perhaps I may be wrong
since, around the factory
sprawling areas could be lying flat
denuding a number of trees.
See, I am looking from a distant hill
a very distant hill, standing over a giant rock.
Sustainable development
is the need of the hour
many argue in an age
when development has
evolved into a byword.
Unfortunately through
gradual deforestation
earlier slowly and later speedily
forests disappear in split seconds causing
environmental disaster
upsetting the climate cycle.
From a slow start the process gathers momentum
and it reaches a shocking level with no break in sight.
Instead the drivers of the modern engines of
so-called growth
apply pressure on the accelerators
resulting in crashes
……causing damage to themselves…..
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