Humankind has been the foremost beneficiary of nature and her riches. Yet, throughout the ages, we have rendered irreversible damages to the environment that brought us up. ‘Nature’s Whine’ is a depiction of the miseries that we, as a race, have inflicted upon our planet.
Why you treat me with disrespect?
Wasn’t it I
On whose bosom
You and your generations thrived?
Sunlight comforted you in the winters,
And trees were your retreat in the summers
Rivers ran to the end of their extent,
And breathed my life into your barren lands
From those lands grew fruits that nourished you,
And kept you going,
I was no less than a mother,
Little did I know,
What monsters had I raised
Before your toxins killed me
They blinded me with smog
Rained down acid all over me
Stripped my birds of their songs
Why this disloyalty
Why this cruelty
Were you not fit to return my favors
You could have left me as I was
This is a great reminder. More power to your words. I can feel it and it pains me how ruthlessly we are ruining nature, speeding extinction and altering the flow of ecosystems.