Are You Listening?
Are You Listening?
You’re a part of us
Yet you don’t understand
Is mistreating your own
family a proud thing to do?
Is this your upbringing?
Is this what you have been taught?
Who will retort to these problems,
Who will hear to our troubles,
These issues keep trotting in our mind
Yet we are silenced
While going on a trip to your favourite destination
And clicking pictures adoring the beauty we possess
You do love and admire us
But is that love only to the extent of clicking a photograph with us?
What after that,
Are we nothing for you?
Right from your hair to your toe,
Everything you are covered with
Is our gift to you
But you still slay us for no reason
Are we subsisting for the sole purpose of trade
Or
Are we here to pool some memories and feel glad
Finding a place in the photographs with you?
We are really perplexed
You seed us
You water us
For years and years
But one day when we start reaping fruits
You deal with us in the market for the sake of earning money
Which we don’t oppose
But dealing us for a portion of the land
Which is ours ”to what extent it is fair?”
Doing this
You are not only undermining the beauty
But also snatching shelter of many animals and birds
Strange, isn’t it?
Early in the morning
When we fly chirping
It sounds sweet to you
But the same sweetness
Turns bitter in taste
When it comes to
safeguarding us
Our cousins are melting
Still no one gives a fuck about it
Are humans just for the sake of recreation in their life?
If the answer is in the affirmative,
Let us tell you that ”if there would be no us
There is no you”
We don't just release oxygen
But we intake carbon too
So
Protect us
And
We will protect you
But make sure that
”No one dares to destroy us anymore”
Alarming you that
The situation around the globe
Is very bad
But you all are not with us
The only reason
We are very sad
-nature ranting out to humans