Man pales

Man pales
P K Routray

Man takes prides in his acts and intellect in vain

as to ascertain and attain the goal of life he is confused and insane.

Soars he high at astronomical cost to expose and reveal His infinite mystery

but fails miserably to find basic necessities of life in fact it is a sordid story.

Searches a man means to excel and rule over others in His creation

but in the process he wrecks the life of others and his own

Him and His power ants to elephants with respect submissively accept.

Praying and thanking the Lord in their ways, them to bless and protect.

As to the external beauty man cannot match the beauty of a flower

as to the innate beauty, the service of a tree compared to man is far better.

Argument ably in intellect, memory man boasts of his superiority

they lose their values in greed, lust and hatred in human complexity

A dear and a lion can live in the same forest without law and prison

but if a deer or a lion enters in to man’s arena its death becomes man’s only mission.

A bee or a butterfly drinks the nectar of a flower to its hearts’ content

aiding the flower to bear fruits to offer food to His creatures with containment

But man plucks the flower to be its sole owner of its fragrance and beauty.

causing the flowers to prematurely wither owing to his act of brutality.

The cooperation, the unity and the fellow feelings we see in birds and animals,

can we cite example of such characters on sustained basis from human annals?

As to the creative power of arts, crafts and music of man Vis-a-Vis other creatures

man boasts, advertises to be better but see the nests of birds and anthills and their features.

Man with their intellect memory power is only the threat to the God’s creation

by polluting environs, dilapidating eco system putting the life on the earth on extinction.

The knowledge and wisdom superior to animals man is supposed to have amasses over the generations

look pale and fruitless as to find happiness, peace and bliss of the soul and futile are their applications.