The world we live in

a poem by Ramesh T A

The sky half covered with clouds and half covered with sun shine
Gives shade and light touch to the picture of the world
With trees, people, cars, streets and bridge
And a beauty with life and loveliness never to be forgotten;
This is the beautiful world we all live in!
How sweet, beautiful and wonderful the world is!

Shades of green trees on one side and Industries with Transformers on another side,
In between, on opposite sides, the road reaches
To the beach and the business town;
In this modern world Nature and Science are juxtaposed by Art,
This well planned Indo-French town is full of beautiful buildings;
Tradition and modernity mingled together here with culture and civilisation.

Now, beneath the surface of this beauty breeds only naked brutality
And creeping corruption degenerates the noble ideals of democracy;
Is politics a deadly poison to put people in fathomless perplexity?
Drinking Champagne thinking sure to achieve their soaring ambition,
The ladder of politics they climb to reach the top position
To get the secret Alchemy of Gold against the contention of heart!

Grip of politics injects fanaticism to humans;
Learned people too can’t fail to feel the frenzy mood,
When violence erupts disrupting normal life on the day of bandh!
The leaders and the workers never see what the reason is, and
Knowledge and common sense steam away once the volcano erupts!
The party workers and the bureaucrats are the trouble creators
Eternally, more than all, only to the simple people of the society.

In the West scientifically developed countries bread machine-beast-men!
And in the East politics permeates all walks of life to produce inhuman creatures!
Only in Corruption, Violence and Sex these machine-beast-men make the world one!

Due to these reasons the general destruction is sure to come soon!
Indication: July 1994 Shoemaker Levi 9 bombarded Jupiter for a week!
And no more that Comet can be seen in the Space!
Like a molecule our Earth too floats in the Universe;
If such a cometic accident takes place on our Earth too,
No imprint can remain to speak of Earth’s past existence!
Of its History, Science, Religion, Politics and People!
That is reality! Is that not so?!