Am I All Too Bad - Plastic

Coming back to home on a very hot day,

I had to change my way, I took a new road,

Which was grubby and reminded me of an ugly toad.

I drank the last sip of my soft drink and threw the bottle aside, and before I could take a step,

I heard- "Hey, to throw me how did you dare?

Use & throw, that's not just fair..."

I looked here and there, I looked all around, But nobody did surround! Frightened I was the most, and thought it could be a ghost! It could even be somebody's fun, But I decided to run! & I heard him again, "Hey, where are you running, look down! I'm here, lying on the ground!"

I saw nothing, but the same bottle, and asked, "Are you the one, with me who was trying to talk to?" He looked slightly irritated, and said, "Can you see anyone else? No, then it's just you!"

I was dozed, and my eyes opened wide, I was shocked! He continued, "Hey you silly boy! How dared you to throw me, I ain't a toy!" Then I spoke up with slight anger, "Then who are you, you worthless thing!"

He said, "I'm a King!" "What!" I said, He continued, "I'm a King! The king of the empire of Plastic!

Yes, the empire now converted into mere rubbish, By you all humans, You all are so selfish!" He raised the level of my anger and I said "To serve us humans, you were made, But our environment you did deteriorate, and tell us, the humans selfish!" He laughed and said, "I, I'm deteriorating! Ok, so tell me how?"

I said, "Mr. King listen to me now!

You are a waste with no end, If thrown in water bodies, you will pollute river, which is our life giver; If burnt, you will pollute air, without which life is nowhere; If buried, you will evaporate fertility of our land, So you are nothing, but just a pollutant!

A pollutant which we'll soon replace..."

He said, No, no! We ain't a pollutant!

Sir, we're your servant!

We served you till now as your carrybag, and in many others shapes! and remember Sir, Neither was I created myself, Nor am I burnt myself!

I can't get buried by myself in your land, and not even a single time I myself entered in your rivers myself! I can be recycled, If I have no end!

I can be handed over to those dustbin, If can't be held, after use, in your hand! I'm your creation -whether a servant, or a pollutant! & my successor, My replacer will also be whatever you make it! I know it well that soon I, & my kingdom will fed, But tell me, Oh my Creator!

AM I ALL TOO BAD???"

Before I could say a thing, From those garbage heaps, for their King I heard a huge applause, and just after a momentary pause, He, the King, turned back to me and said- "From next time, To throw me like that you don't need, at least in front of my citizens, pay me some heed!" and he went back to his people....

Suddenly I opened my eyes, I thanked God that it was merely a dream, and got up of my bed, But an unanswerable question still echoed in my mind, "AM I ALL TOO BAD???"