We Did It

Vandana Sharma (Lecturer, JGBS)

When we found light, not only fire, 

But also the florescent bulb bright, we did it. 

To think that we could keep the sun light, 

All through the night, we did it. 

When we ploughed the earth, but forgot to nurture it. 

Got our food and plundered it, we did it. 

When we made those mines, 

And said clean energy is fine. 

Into cosmetics we put and thought beauty got defined, we did it. 

Those forests that we inherited, when we cut them down. 

And then planted lonely trees around us, 

And thought nature won’t frown, we did it. 

When we made a farmer’s life, feel like its cursed, 

and yet no one pursed. 

When we lost the feeling of grass beneath our feet, 

the sounds of the forest and the kiss of the sun, we did it 

When ‘eco’-nomy betrayed ‘eco’-logy, 

And ‘home’ became only about money, we did it. 

When we lost connection with nature and emotions, we did it. 

An arrogant human race that beneathed every other species, oh yes, 

that was the beginning of how we did it! 

But in this drill of the ill, and engulfing grief, 

The chirping of birds and songs of the wind, 

Gives hope and some a relief!!

--Economy and ecology are derived from the Greek word “oikos” meaning “home”