A WAKE-UP CALL
(By Amritbir Kaur)
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A man near a tree;
the tree - here today, gone tomorrow.
So gonna be man,
here today
gone tomorrow.
And then the Earth...
Need I say more?
The announcement -
of an arrival,
the arrival of an end,
is reiterating itself.
Who says, "I can't hear"?
May be even I say so.
Why?
Nobody can tell.
This - yes, this
is to be the last and final call.
The race has to continue and we
have to wake up,
wake up to be in a cleaner world,
wake up in a greener world,
wake up one day
with no smoke filling our lungs
wake up in a much better place
to live and to breathe.