Let’s speak about vanishing speciesSpeak not about humans
and their problems now
speak about vanishing species
and extinctions underway
the irreparable losses
happening every moment around us, that
cannot abdicate our irresponsibility, greed and arrogance.
Lets speak about the forlorn Rhino grazing at Kaziranga
who doesn’t understand the fault of its brethren
found mutilated and hacked, same with tigers and elephants.
Black bear at the zoo climbs and unclimbs a dead trunk
in a maniacal disorientation.
It’s the vulture that pays the heavy price for the milk we nourish.
Speak not about humans
and the gods they create to fight each other
The perfect little selfish worlds
they each snooze in
and choose to ignore the calamities that knock harder each day
Lets speak about Asiatic lions at Gir
hounded and cornered they live on time we borrowed
Dwelling flattened Malabar Civet’s too is at the door
saying the final goodbye, shouldn’t we atleast get up?
The angst of dolphin pair in the Ganges, sacred and filthier,
is for mercy
for the crime they aren’t even aware
while the perpetrators choose to count profit.
Lets speak about waterbirds that is lost
to roost, in wetlands encroached by builders,
vanishing mangroves and bleached corals, lets speak about these.
Speak not about the humans now
we have listened them and their reasons enough
lets listen to the world that is not speaking, that doesn’t have much reasons
except their fragile presence
vanishing traces of splendour
like the endangered wild orchid
sparkling in its radiance under the blue sky
feet away from being uprooted
and lost forever...
(Please find time to visit my birds blog at the link or visit www.iseeebirds.blogspot.com. The traffic to that blog seems to be less than this one, which is a tragedy since that is my main blog, not that i am terribly concerned, but i would prefer readers from as many countries as possible, in particular from Africa and middle east ... It is a triumph of internet, just amazing!)
