Homage to Greenery

The door knocks. I open the door. But Alas! It is not the opportunity that waits but the dark face of disaster greeting me. I can feel the cold welcome of death and destruction. It would be unfair if I say that I was unaware of the knock on my wisdom’s gate.

It has been more than a decade that we are being constantly reminded about the steps we take in our day to day life. Seldom do we conscientiously take note on the heart beat and consider to what it says.

Deki caresses those beautiful flowers and waters her garden every day. Grandma relishes the evening chat sipping hot tea as she sits on the green carpeted lawn. She smiles at the Gulmohar and recalls the day when she collaborated with Deki to plant it in the garden.

The woodcutter next door without any hesitation sits under the shade of the banyan tree not knowing that he is the one who adds on to the misery of the earth. The lumbered wood falls on the earth stating an end to its glory. Why is this sad tale revising and repeating every time? Why are our hearts so poor to turn down the offer of disgrace? In a moment’s time we surrender. Then the story of bitterness begins and would last till the death bell tolls.

Every year on the world enviornment day we pledge to preserve and protect our environment. We plant new saplings, water our existing dreams so that it multiplies our happiness. “Greening the blue” is the pledge of the UN this year. Our earth with 3/4^th of water bodies and 1/4^th of land mass, clothed with green trees is a rare planet in our solar system. We are recklessly on our way to make the planet colourful without the greenery of the leaves swinging in the wind. The large shopping malls, theatre houses and star hotels are the evidence of destruction.They shamefully stand on the ruins on the graves of the fallen tree of life. This is not a tribute we are supposed to pay for the priceless trees.

Lately, the nerves of the government in countries all over the world are shaken. They are in a move in making policies to protect our earth from turning cold. Their policies ensure that the earth is not de-clothed again and again. The poisonous gases from the factories every time adds on to the scars on the beautiful face of our mother earth. She cries bitterly and laments on the ruthless gesture we show towards her. She helplessly watches herself being torn apart amidst the greed of modernisation. Why are we in haste? We repeatedly prove ourselves to be the “farmer” who greedily sacrificed the goose that laid golden eggs everyday”. On every move we are sealing our fate. A fisherman would always pray for the rivers to never get dried up so that he can survive and earn his livelihood. Everything we do is for a selfish cause that we cannot evade but there is always a way to protect our endless greed so that each one of us get an equal share. Let’s plant trees and keep the earth green. It’s an old promise which we have to remind ourselves because the promise made in the real sense of the term means a lot.

Let us not terminate our life and add on to a sad tale but in fact help the earth retain its greenery on which the other planets have ever casted the green eyes of envy. 

Let us gift Deki the inestimable happiness forever which she fosters in watering her pet flowers and may grandma ever find her happiness in sipping hot tea amidst the greens.