The End Not Too Far

- Arjun Prakash

The war had begun and panic-stricken people were, Red with blood! 
A Martian look of the earth, Chaos and confusion took birth everywhere, 
Terror - stricken, helpless stood mother Earth.

Astrologers had predicted- “there’d be an Armageddon”, But who cared? 
There was struggle for supremacy, Ravenous countries desired for more without complacency, For another earth, was this the beginning of the dawn?

Terror everywhere! And bombardment of nukes! Poisoned air, 
venomed seas and oceans
Grains of bones and blood soups;
Spared not were even the dreadful tigers and lions.

Nothing survived; Nature too wasn’t given a chance, Man’s progress had created his own extinction.
Blood stained, wounded Earth lay on her deathbed; Burning red, 
with rashes on her body.

And dead she lay deceived by her own sons
Such was the trouble given by man to mother earth. The only one...still alive was...’DEATH’!
Was ‘this’ the ultimate boon of...SCIENCE?!

Arjun Prakash 
R9 Reader's Quarters, 
Jnanabharathi Campus, 
Bangalore University, 
Bangalore - 560 056.