SELF ANNIHILATION

Yesterday, or a few  years  ago, vast skies and fields we could see;

Today there are concrete jungles, live where we , paying a heavy fee.

Just a glimpse of the sky we long for, clouds we can hardly see.

Grass there is little; even reclaimed we have the seas.

Flowers beautiful there were plenty,  with wasps and  bees;

Mountains n hills are inundated, bereft of greenery, no trees

But now cemented pavements,  lampposts,  advertisements we see

Polluted  air with less oxygen we breathe; gone is our energy n glee

Less of Sunshine, more of depression all around us we these  days see

That beautiful romantic Moon, that magical moonlight and me;

Were friends close, with stars twinkling as far as I could see !!!

Self annihilation,  depression, illnesses all around have we.

O humans, is this what  modernisation, advancement call we ?

Armin Dutia Motashaw