ನೀ ಮರುಳ...

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ಕಳೆದುಕೊಂಡ ನೀ ಮರುಳ!!

Give it a minute.

I sit in my balcony fanning myself(as there is a power cut).It is around midnight and I realize there are no trees except two coconut trees at about 100m and none after that. I turn around to look behind me but can find none as far as my sight goes.

As I keep fanning myself, my gaze is fixed on the two trees, dancing, enjoying the mild breeze in this wild summer. They seem to tell me something that I do not understand. Though tomorrow is a new moon day, I am surprised that the sky is lit well enough for me to the see the trees’ branches swaying in rhythm. I wonder what is it that they are trying to tell me.

My mind races beyond the trees, beyond the busy world below me, beyond the chaos around me, beyond everything materialistic, to a place where everything is in abundance; not money, not people, not greediness, not attitude, not ego, not hunger, not hatred but love, humanity, nature.

Long since, we have loved our so called development and civilization at the cost of what is actually important for human existence. Man has showed his atrocities over nature in all possible ways. Trees have been cut down mercilessly for road widening and to make way for concrete jungle where only animals of human like can live (compared to actual jungle where various animals exist in harmony). Global warming, scarce rain and all other problems can be related to these acts of humans.

The sound of TV and creaking of fan brings me back to reality. It is then I realize what the trees are trying to tell me. I smile at them and tell them,” True, You win. It has to be that way. Thanks for reminding the mortals every now and then that You always an upper hand.”

P.S: In the name of Developing, they are destroying me! Please Help! - Mother Earth