Who killed the dog?

 Who killed the dog?

                     O God!

                      Who killed the dog?

                     It was so crashed that

  Its intestines was so exposed

                     Outside its body

                     It is just terrible and horrible

                     To behold

                     It is so disgusting

                     To think of

                      How the person who killed the dog

                     What a senseless, irresponsible and cold-blooded person

                     He is

                     If there were God,

                     I believed in justice

                     The man would feel sorry

                     For killing the dog.

                     He would have to pay

                     In one way or another

                     He would be punished more

                     For leaving the dog on the road

                    To be run over by many more cars

                    The dog was so battered

                     Beyond recognition.

                     But it was just too terrifying to see.

                     It was even more horrifying to think

                     How these people could let their cars

                     Run over the dead dog

                     Without any sense of remorse

                     Or they did not see at all!

If a tiger could talk

If a tiger could talk

                      If a tiger could talk,

                      I am for sure

                      He would seek justification

                      He would plead for justice

                      To assess the sins

                       Committed by man and the tiger.

                  

                      He would question:

                      “What justification is that: ”

                       For man to eat tiger

                       And what a fuss

                       Man creates

                       What an uproar man can stir up

                       When a tiger eats a man.

                 

                       Man has invented many methods

                       To trap and kill the tiger

                        And yet tigers have always been condemned as ‘ferocious’.

               

                        We, tigers, have been so abused, oppressed and suppressed

                        Just because we couldn’t talk.

                       

                        Man’s population has exploded

                        At the expense of us tigers

                        We are at the verge of extinction.

                        We eat when we are hungry.

                        It’s the need of an instinct to live.

                        A tiger eats man

                        Who trespasses and transgresses

                        Too much to spare.

                        But man eats tigers

                        For your wilful and fanciful thoughts

                        To believe that we tigers have the power

                        To enhance your constitution and longevity.

                         We bite and eat man, simple and easy

                         Man, on the other hand

                         Slaughters, skins, chops, cuts, saws, hacks

                         Pounds, mashes, mints……to anatomise us.

                         Then you boil, bake, fry, grill, marinate,

                         Roast, steam, stew …………us tigers.

                         To be fair

                       I implore you to be conscientious

                       To ponder on the questions:

                        Who eats who?

                        Who is more ferocious:  man  or tiger

                        Every bite you take

                        On our hearts, lungs and flesh

                        Please chew slowly and cautiously

                        Never swallow us hastily.

                       

                        Good gracious!

                        You are well-off        

                         And we are miserable.

                        You are too self-centred, dominating and exploiting

                        To satisfy your selfish aims

                        Your judgement of Good or Bad

                        Is entirely based on the benefits

                        You can extract from other living things

                        You, human being couldn’t tolerate

                        Any revolt against your exploitation

                        You brand us ‘ferocious’

                        Just because we pose threat to your authority

                        To dominate and exploit

                         Did you know how

                         You transgress and trespass our territory?

                        Did you know how

                        Greedy, cruel, selfish and senseless you are.

       

                        Did you know that

                        You are destroying yourselves

                        And pass your own death sentence:

                        When all kinds of flora and fauna become extinct

                        You are actually laying the road of death for yourselves

                        When the ecological system is upset

                         You, human beings will lose the foothold of life.

                         Did you know that

                         We are all abide by

                         The law of nature

       

                         We are interdependent and in contra-interdependence

                         In the ecological system

                         Ponder over it.

                                                                                           ( 22 November 2004)

                                                                                          (Inspiration series 4)

Prayers for a better world

Prayers for a better world                                (Inspiration 2)

               

                   I pray for a better world.

                   You pray for a better world.

                   He prays for a better world, too.

                   We all pray for a better world together

                   So that we can live with the respect

                   for ourselves and others

                   We can love one another

                   with good understanding.

                   And worship the Lord of this universe

                   In words and in deeds.

Where have the fish gone?

Where have the fish gone?

                Dear brothers and sisters,

please help me to look around

                where the fish in the deep blue sea  have swum away!

                Dear brethrens, please help me to find out

                where the fish in the deep sea  have fled! 

               

                Please help me to observe

where the fish in the deep blue sea  have gone!

                Please check for me

if our fish in the deep blue sea have been all gobbled

by some greedy people

                Please investigate for me

if our fish in the deep blue sea have been traded

for a lot of cash!

                Please detect for me

if our fish in the deep blue sea have been sucked

into a fathomless pit!

                Please count for me

how many fish we still possess in our deep blue sea

                Please meditate for me

to find out the reason why our rich sea is so deprived of fish now!!!!

                Why our fishermen say, “Hard to catch fish nowadays!!!!”

                Why our fishmongers say, “No fish for sale!”

                Why everybody says, “No fish to buy!!!!”

                Good gracious!  What a curse!  What a shame!

                What has gone wrong with our deep blue sea

once abound with variety of fishes

               

                Dear brothers and sisters,

please be more self-motivated

to look around to see where the fish

in the deep blue sea have swum away!

                Please try harder to find out

where the fish have fled!!

               

Please be more observant to discover

where the fish have gone

               

Please think harder if our fish in the deep blue sea

have really been all gobbled by some greedy people!

               

Please be more responsible to investigate

if it is true some people by hook or by crook

have traded our deep sea fish for a lot of cash

               

Please be more meticulous to search

if there is really a fathomless pit 

sucking away our fish in the deep blue sea

               

Please be more attentive to count and calculate

to discover how many fish we still have in our deep blue sea!

                Please be calm and composed enough

to ponder why our rich sea is deprived of and poor now!

                Alamak!  What a curse!  What a shame!

                Dear brothers and sisters,

please ask yourselves how much love and concern

you have for our land and sea!

                Please ask yourselves how attentive you are

to the plight and disaster plaguing to our land and sea.

                Ask yourselves how much you have done

to conserve and preserve our land and sea

                Ask yourselves how sensible you are

to the pain and cries of our land and sea

towards our plundering and greed !!!!

                Ask yourselves how serious you are

to become enlightened with the laws of Nature

                Ask yourselves what you can do now

to salvage our land and sea!!!