As a species comes to an end...

Has it ever happened with you, that you hear something, or read about something, something totally unconnected with your life, your world...and yet, somehow, the world seems a darker place...blacker, somehow? It happens with me everyday. Every single day. All i have to do, is open the newspaper...

It hurts somewhere deep, inside, when you see what the human race is doing to itself...when hate is so much easier than love, when more people harm each other each day than smile, even, when the ruling emotion in our lives is frustration...when all you can feel, when you see the stranger on the road, is mistrust and fear...

The villages, where our very sustenance is grown, the places most connected with Mother Earth, have people committing suicides every day, as the cruel people exploiting them, milking their innocence, shrug and find someone else to kill...and elsewhere, animals are slaughtered in the millions, a huge, unending river of thinking, sentient life being destroyed continually, to feed pure, selfish, self-destructive greed...

The concept of beauty loses all meaning and value, when faced with profit, the idea of earning money...hills are destroyed to build more, bigger, more expensive houses...whole forests vanish, replaced by factories, spewing death of every kind, destroying the World...

Children, supposed to be the very symbol of innocence, fill themselves with so much hate as to destroy everyone they can, in their very schools, supposed to be Temples of education, before destroying themselves...

God has become something only foolish people believe in, and anarchy towards the Laws of Nature has become THE way of life...

Our rulers, who are supposed to guide us, to show us how to live, are absorbed only in their obsession with money as the very system they live off crumbles around them...uncaring of all the lives they destroy every single DAY...

Our celebrities, the people we WORSHIP, are worse humans than us, and we all, perversely, enjoy seeing the hidden truths about them cruelly exposed...the shows we watch the most are the ones with the most hate, the most fights...and these shows are called the 'Reality' of our lives...

This Diwali, the Festival of 'Light', i look up at the Sky, and all i can see is a haze of smoke darkening the Sky...adding even more Darkness to our lives...slowly, inexorably, blotting out each tiny, twinkling star of Hope...

Sometimes, when you see all this, you flare with rage, ashamed that you must be a part of this species too, wanting to scream, to shout, to CHANGE things...but sometimes, overwhelmed by the utter hugeness of our self-destructive evil, all you want to do is sit down, bury your head in your arms, and cry...cry your heart out...as you feel the pain of an Earth, a Mother, whose children determinedly, surely, tread the path to a waiting, patient Hell...