To Mother and Sri Aurobindo

Holocaust of Man

The blue and pristine lakes polluted now,

Work of the ego-self of man, his greed

A tempest of desire's endless flow,

His skies a dark miasma sorrowing bleed

Their acid rain and weep the tears of death.

The forests fall and life-forms disappear,

The seas are drowned in effluent, our breath

Labours in fumes of a noxious atmosphere.

Disaster and chaos sweep the suffering earth

And caught in the rapids of our errant deeds

We are carried from birth to meaningless birth

Playthings and puppets of wild and wanton needs.

But Two have come to set earth's destiny,

Progenitors of godhead's renaissance

Immortal they tread mid our mortality

Bringing the joy of heaven's ambiance.