Where Have the Seasons Gone?
Where are the seasons?
In the earlier days, seasons visited as 4 and left as 4. Now they come as 2 and leave as 1. Or is it appropriate to say, seasons are disappearing? There are no chilled mornings, no more starry nights, no calm noons and no gentle drizzles. Rains come and go at their wish and summers come and refuse to leave. Rather stay as unwelcome guests for long. Is that what Science terms as global warming.....?
Now, what I see green, appears more yellowish. I don't see the earthworms any more. No more migratory birds, no more unique species in view, no more grasslands where one went hunting for small rodents and snakes, no more ponds with lotuses, where one could fish. Decades have passed by and all these 'piecemeal' changes strike like a thunderbolt! Reality bites, and it bites hard enough to leave a crater of sadness and shock behind. Whatever happened.....?
I don't see a road sans the vehicles! And if I do, for a moment, there is a cloud of carbon monoxide engulfing me into its blanket of smoke and a lot of cacophony. And when the cloud clears, the self does not feel the same. Feels ambushed! The repulsive smell refuses to leave the nostrils and pushes more and more into the nasal tract creating a wave of nausea from within! Ain't there a place sans pollution and noise.....?
Now, what I see green, appears more yellowish. I don't see the earthworms any more. No more migratory birds, no more unique species in view, no more grasslands where one went hunting for small rodents and snakes, no more ponds with lotuses, where one could fish. Decades have passed by and all these 'piecemeal' changes strike like a thunderbolt! Reality bites, and it bites hard enough to leave a crater of sadness and shock behind. Whatever happened.....?
I don't see a road sans the vehicles! And if I do, for a moment, there is a cloud of carbon monoxide engulfing me into its blanket of smoke and a lot of cacophony. And when the cloud clears, the self does not feel the same. Feels ambushed! The repulsive smell refuses to leave the nostrils and pushes more and more into the nasal tract creating a wave of nausea from within! Ain't there a place sans pollution and noise.....?
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