What is the use of planting trees
On a World Environment Day,
When we cut down trees six day a week
And plant only one on the seventh day?
We destroy nature more than we preserve.
They don't have hands to act in defense;
But they have sense, a sense of touch...
What is the use of imparting education
To the young minds, and making them learn ways
To protect our mother Earth?
When we cannot leave a single tree,
From chopping into pieces...
We are the most superior creature of all.
We are the most intelligent, the most clever of all.
However, our superiority don't give us the right,
To cut down trees and cease their existence.
They live with us and we live with them.
We are superior only when we let them grow...
Promises once broken; can never be mended.
Trust once lost; can never be rebuilt.
Trees give us life, but it's suffocating for us today.
A time will come when money will suffocate us,
And we will need the trees back.
But all we will have is money and,
Money always cannot buy everything.
It's not always the girls or the women,
Who are being raped.
We are this inhuman that,
We are now raping nature too...
A time will surely come when the roads
Will lay scattered with paper money;
Fluttering in the wind.
Just like the dry leaves that once fluttered;
Leaves of the trees which you once cut,
In your distant past...
Copyright Shaheen Akhtar.