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Monday, July 26, 2010

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(Inspired by the Documentary 'Collapse' click the picture to launch trailer)

Oceans feed on land
Earth shudders often
Floods took our homes
People move here and there

Center was silent,
About the storm.
Sheep were scattered
Like ashes in a wind.

Chaos bared its teeth
Food, a calculation
Shelter, a shared nightmare
Water turned wine

Sins of our fathers
Paying a late visit
No, we reached here
The dividend of greed

6 comments:

anupama said...

Dear Anoop,
Good Evening!
Well expressed thoughts on the miseries the layman faces.
But there must be a spark somewhere that inspire us to get up and build brick by brick.
Here I like to share a forward I received.
A Voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea
and only two of the men on it were able
to swim to a small, desert like island.
The two survivors, not knowing what else to do,
agree that they had no other recourse
but to pray to God.
However, to find out whose prayer was more powerful,
they agreed to divide the territory between them
and stay on opposite sides of the island.
The first thing the first man prayed for was food.
The next morning, the first man saw
a fruit-bearing tree on his side of the land,
and he was able to eat its fruit

The other man's parcel of land remained barren.

After a week, the first man was lonely
and he decided to pray for a wife.
The next day, another ship was wrecked,
and the only survivor was a woman
who swam to his side of the land.

On the other side of the island there was nothing.

Soon the first man prayed for a house,
clothes, more food.
The next day, like magic,
all of these w ere given to him.

However the second man still had nothing.
Finally the first man prayed for a ship.
so that his wife and he could leave the island.
In the morning, he found a ship docked
at his side of the island.

The first man boarded the ship with his wife
and decided to leave the second man on the island.
He considered the other man unworthy
to receive God's blessings,
since none of his prayers had been answered.
As the ship was about to leave,
the first man heard a voice from Heaven booming
'Why are you leaving your companion on the island?'


'My blessings are mine alone,
since I was the one who prayed for them,'
the first man answered.
'His prayers were all unanswered,
and so he does not deserve anything.'

'You are mistaken!'
the voice rebuked him.
'He had only one prayer,
which I answered.
If not for that, you would not have
received any of my blessings.'

'Tell me,' the first man asked the voice,
'what did he pray for that I
should owe him anything?'

'He prayed that all your prayers be answered.'

For all we know, our blessings are not
the fruits of our prayers alone,
but those of another praying for us.
When Jesus died on the cross,
He was thinking of you.If you are one of the 7%
who will stand up for him
forward this with the title
'I am one of the 7%'.

93% of people won't forward this.

Anonymous said...

Chaos bared its teeth
Food, a calculation
Shelter, a shared nightmare
Water turned wine



but we can hope there may be someone like 'the second man'(Anu's comment)
who prayed that all his companion's prayers be answered.And we can try to be a 'second man'.

Sourcebound said...

@ Anupama & Anju

The entire universe exists because a majority of the population thinks or prays that everything will be all right. Our kindness or concern towards the fellow human being is what keeps the civilization ticking.

Pranavam Ravikumar said...

Good Lines.... Touching too.... Keep writing....

Regards

Kochuravi

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Uma Anandane said...

Interesting words build in a beautiful poem

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