Sunday, May 30, 2004

save the frikin earth???

I look outside the window at the eastern sky stretching wide, over the coast. A search for comfort and well-being lands me in devastating premises.
Clarity never seemed so cruel, standing afar. A thousand industries burn me from the inside and eat away with the entrails of a staggering body; staggering towards a greater and more evasive unknown. The mind runs outside, that it may seek some comfort there, but the external is a more threatening reflection of what’s locked inside. Cringing in the torment of a new-born, slipping from the womb into an infernal pyre, making out from the chaos nought but its own being. Explosive implosions.
Incomplete to call it what man has made of man. It is a greater tragedy, but made with such grandeur and magnificence.
Magnificent is this, for it IS. Every pinch of every spice adds to the delicacy of the situation.
But what when it, this existence, begins to consume itself? Does it fight to prolong itself, once it sees its great reflection? Should it? must we?
Shall the glaciers melt already, having felt the heat of rising man, and bury us with ocean? Or shall it hang atop the mountains awaiting a strange, twisting plot?
Will a man being suffocated, in confrontation with death, sit down in acceptance of his fate?
Happiness has its hands cuffed to sorrow, and bliss has its hands cuffed pain and suffering. Cuffed, for it is more ideal to realise happiness always, without ever having met with sorrow, and bliss without pain and suffering. surely then, this enchanting existence must be cuffed to its own end, however abrupt it may appear. Must we accept the signs of the end with no further ado? Or must we fight for existence? How to proceed knowing it to be the intended end?



In love with this dream,
In love with this stream.
Aware of the awakening dawn;
Of the enclosing sea.
Shall I slay the sun and dream forever away?
Shall I flow back to the mountains, forever to play?
Even while knowing that the sun is unreachable, and the mountains lost forever.



A creator puts himself into his creation. Once it is made, he feels attached to it. Harm to the creation, is harm to the creator, however much it maybe said that the creation once created, is an entity apart from the creator. To let the art go, to the artist, is to let himself go. The artist here seems to be an exceptional one to have made Life a self-swallowing piece of art.

4 Comments:

At 3:17 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

To the average human, existence is a mundane thing. Science has raped Mother Earth. I'm with you on this one. But i firmly believe that a civlization.. hell..to make it more basic.. a SPECIES.. has to evolve and progress in order to tailor its surroundings to the best of its ability. We do but the same. On one hand, its about having a full stomach. If all I worry about is getting two square meals a day I really have no business poking my nose into environmental issues.. for instance. Which brings me to another issue. Conservation. With certain exceptions (as is humanly usual..) we're taking this nonsense WAYYY too far. A race or species which deserves to survive does so on its own in the end. I've got enough shit on my own head trying to earn for me and my family. Why should I give a flying fuck about the Mealy-Mouthed Amazon Maggot which is dwindling fast because the American lumber giants are felling balsa trees?
Its all relative in the end brother..

 
At 3:48 PM , Blogger karthik said...

thats exactly what i was thinking too. but man is different from animals in that he can think and rationalize, right? we know we're doing things wrong, so why not change our ways? if u go by the survival argument, then there are things like sex where man is no longer like animals. but it has resulted in repression, you say? hmm... perhaps a transition... i dunno. anyway, if you choose to go by the view that if man will destroy the earth as part of his natural agenda of survival, then you have to consider realization of mistakes and correction as a part of the same natural process as well. but then again its like the veg. (vs) non-veg. conflict where you ask youself why u dont mind eating garlic or potato, while u make a big fuss about killing a chicken. aint plants alive??

 
At 3:31 AM , Blogger smoke said...

"Happiness has its hands cuffed to sorrow, and bliss has its hands cuffed pain and suffering." Awesome lines!

"if man will destroy the earth as part of his natural agenda of survival"...

This is the thing about human beings that makes no sense to me. I mean, what's the point? If we're going to destroy the earth in the process of our survival, aren't we actually going towards self-destruction? We can't exist if the earth is devoid of plants and animals and all other sources of energy!

And that's why, I think, people have started to realise that it's time to try to reverse the damage caused by man or at least preserve what he's yet to harm--it's survival instinct again, in the long run, not concern for other creatures.

Maybe that's a cynical viewpoint but there it is...

 
At 3:19 AM , Blogger karthik said...

i'll tell you why that was intelluctual masturbation... cos today, 2 years (?) after i wrote that, i drank two bottles of miranda, threw a plastic ice cream wrapper, sat in my folk's ac room and wasted a lotta water to keep myself cool... im wearing some mother (nature) fucking clothes and using some atmosphere raping perfume.... i dunno how i have the guts to say this... guess my hope is that i'll now think a lil more about this tomorrow... and perhaps lead a wiser life day after...?!?!

 

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