Will I Learn?

You just landed here

With no warning or our invitation

You traveled so fast around the world

We have no clue what your intention is

However, we do understand it is not good

Totally unprepared, life has gone haywire

Mankind always sustained by supporting each other

But you have torn apart that delicate fabric

Everybody has become vulnerable

Leaving hardly anybody free of fear

You are impartial, though

Visiting all countries

All people of all religions, all castes,

All economic status

Nobody is sure of being spared

Having imagined nothing so unpredictable

Mankind has been challenged 

Could something so tiny 

Ruin the entire world

Affect the entire humanity

Cause so much of damage 

To all that people struggled over the centuries to develop?

You have challenged our might

Our economic strength, military prowess, our intellect

Seems like you have come well prepared

To fully avenge all the harm that we caused overages,

And enable mother earth to breathe easily,

The forests to rejuvenate

The animals, birds, and insects to enjoy their freedom

The air to freshen up, the water to purify itself

But you know and I too know

That all your efforts will be defeated

When you think all is fine and call it quits

Because we will get back to our maddening lives

Forgetting all the beatings that we got from you

We have never learned lessons in the past

So do you think we will learn now?

Though the fear you have aroused in us is strong enough

To last our lifetime

I wonder what is it that will make mankind

Realize permanently that he is but a small speck of the Universe

And if he does not live in harmony with nature

He can go extinct in no time

Just as he is causing so many species to go extinct.

All his knowledge and intellect

Can easily be defeated by just a small virus

Which cannot even be seen with a naked eye!