Beauty and Beast

Beauty and Beast

P K Routray

To cool or to heat

or in cozy comfort to sit

for each act and deed

energy is the man’s need.

Energy in very huge proportion

have their sources, on the verge of extinction,

the sources can never get replenished,

the day is not far when the human race will be vanished.

The most beautiful modern plant of conversion

from minerals to electricity for energy transmission

pollute the climatic condition

and eat away energy in mammoth proportion

with efficiency factor far less than cent percent

genius man accepts his failure with heads bent.

With resource extinction and environmental pollution

man forges ahead to beautify his life in gay abandon

Is it quest for beauty or a character of beast?

To reflect upon and to react the man cares least.

Accept the tribal in forest as professors and his society as university

to learn true lesson of survival accepting them on the subjects as authority.

(N. B - Considering conversion, transmission, distribution and utilization i.e from source to end use, eighty percent of energy is thrown to dilapidate the ecology. Further with best technology pollution cannot be wiped out. For so called beautifying his own life man behaves with conscience of beasts)