Nature's Lament

Mother Earth shudders and weeps, as

She sees her beloved trees tremble and fall

Leaving in its wake a sorrowful trail of destruction

For children of the next generation.

The forest cover diminishes day by day

Virtually giving a bewildering shock,

Where are the scents and sounds hidden in nature’s wealth, 

That marked our joyful trysts with freedom and flock.

Do we need a second reminder?

Is Global warming not enough?

To declare our love and hold our earth in a loving clasp

As our lives rise and ebb like the flow of the river.

The future is in your hand, my friend,

Take it or leave it, or try to ways amend

And show the strong will to transcend

All hurdles and the earth befriend.