If Only...

If only we could sit down and be still

And pause for a while the chaos of our worldly affairs

We’d hear him talk to us crystal clear

And there’d be no use for any prayers

If only we could contemplate once

The cuts and scratches and bruises we give

To ourselves and to others we love or hate

There’d be no need for World Peace

If only we could give a thought

To our green and multi-hued ‘lesser’ friends

Then blessed would be this death that we live

And there’d be no need for the WWF

And if only for a moment we could hold on

To our hectic crimes and give the cubs a thought

They’d come out of their evil chasms

And there’d be no need for any rehabs

But alas for we do not stand

No time we have for wasting

Trivial deem we this trifle two minutes

Of just sitting down and thinking

And so the caravan rolls on

And on rolls the wheel of death

Man comes and goes but I linger still

And woefully witness my pitiful fate

For time bears testimony, it bore and will

To man’s inhumane and cruel deeds

Which lead nowhere else but death

Of him, of others, of all, of me.

Anant Vidur Puri