An End To All

Someone asked me,

If you could be anything except yourself,

What would you be?

I thought about the free birds in the sky,

But threatened by the danger to their lives

I don't want to be an endangered one.

A river, this crossed my mind

But getting polluted and dried up

I don't want an end like this.

Tree, that's what I thought I want to be

But rising to flames or being murdered

I cannot bear the torment of this.

Bearing life, a vast ocean I thought

But taking lives of the entire ecosystem by the pollution

I would not want an end to that.

A sky perhaps!

No, I don't want to choke in smoke

Surely, I don't want this too.

A planet?

It would be a matter of time

When the species would bring an end to me.

Nowhere lies the life I want to live,

I replied saying,

I want to become a better human.