Let's Put Things Back In Their Place (Poem)

Let's Put Things Back In Their Place

Socially distant we hide

Many locked safe inside

Myriad things come to mind

Evolve we can in the grind

Ignorant we were in our space

Now far from that blissful place

Cut down was our selfish pace

Left alone with our fears to face  

I wish we all had paid attention

Air Ocean faced contamination

Empty talks reeked pretension

Save Greta's brave exertion

Conscious of all his deeds done

Man hath Mother Nature undone  

This agony She had silently borne

Time would come for us to mourn

So now we bear the wrath

Of Nature and the aftermath

Will we never learn to care

Unless death in our face stare

How we wish we had been kind

And done things of a different kind

Reminiscing what could have been 

Now, anxious of the future unseen

An important lesson we can learn

If only we are willing to take a turn

To Put Things Back In Their Place

For Nature and her mindful grace

With awareness learn to thrive

And gratitude for being alive

Lovingly care for Mother Earth

We pay the debt of our birth 

-- by Anura Jain