Wonder Of Wonders

Wonder of wonders
P K Routray
Clicked I the net
world wonders to get.
Results pushed me to wonder
with flashing thoughts to ponder.
Variation in the list is natural
with time, developments actual.
Each wonder has a story behind
for its conception and construction, we find.
Mostly, tinged with blood, sweat and torture
at some people’s power whim and pleasure.
Colosseum of Rome
to enjoy fight gruesome
slave made to fight with animal
till he is killed or dead to fall.
Over church, temple mosque, man fought bitter
Tajmahal or Hagia Sophia are examples which glitter.
Found I, in the search a child looking with wonder in the eye
at million of wonders around on the ground and the sky.
A glass blade, a flying bird, an uncared for flower and sound of thunder
to the child, everything is surprising, at everything he looks with wonder
Understands if he, the vagaries in human behavioral colors
through his eyes we can see the worst wonder of wonders.
Stopped I then and there to search for wonders any further
concluding that the innocence of the child as the best wonder, nothing is better.

(N B In Google image for photo of wonders you see a child with sparkling eye. This poem has referred to the boy – a representative of innocence)