If You Cut a Tree; You Cut Your Own Mother – Poems on Environment , Wildlife , Mother Nature , Global Warming by Nikhil Parekh - HTML preview

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50. LEAD LIFE LIKE A MAN 

 

Drink like a rabbit, gently lapping at water cascading

from white water springs of the mountain,

 

Sleep like a demon, snoring thunderously without even

moving a whisker to the most lethal of dynamite

explosion,

 

Perspire like a bull, slogging it hard under the

steaming rays of the sun,

 

Dance like a peacock, spreading your feathers to a

full plumage under exotic outbursts of rain,

 

Smile like a wild chimpanzee, snaring your snow white

teeth without being the slightest overwhelmed by your

surroundings,

 

Run like kangaroo, traversing the dense foliage of the

jungle, taking 10 strides at a time,

 

Scratch like a red ant, resurrecting your destroyed

cocoon every next second,

 

Sing like the Nightingale, inundating every barren

spot in vicinity with the ecstatic melody in your

sound,

 

Cry like a crocodile, shedding tears as gargantuan as

the cloud on every area you tread,

 

Sting like a scorpion, piercing supple and innocuous

skin with the venomous poison in your fangs,

 

Talk like a parrot, chattering incessantly as misty

wisps of air and the aroma of delectable food struck

you in entirety,

 

Roar like a lion, waking up every entity sleeping

blissfully, with a single growl of yours,

 

Smell like the roots, emanating a voluptuously raw

odor, just after the first spells of rain,

 

Stand like an elephant, weathering each storm trying

to blow you with enviable ease,

 

Dream like an angel, exploring the most wildest

regions around the globe with rampant frenzy,

 

Shiver like a goose, with infinite strands of hair

standing up in animation, on the snow,

 

Slaver like a dog, greedily protruding out your tongue

panting passionately for water,

 

Bathe like the dolphins, diving acrobatically into the

sapphire sea's, with your body engulfed completely by

the majestic waves,

 

Chew like a cow, slowly munching your meals with

rejuvenated gusto,

 

Scamper around like a squirrel, leaping friskily on

the myriad of dangling branch,

 

Fly high like the eagles, flapping your wings

exuberantly with the cotton cocoon of clouds gliding

past your hair,

 

Kick like a donkey, swinging your legs viciously

towards those who tried to disturb your concentration,

 

Lick like a cat, sucking every droplet of milk from

the steep edged bowl,

 

Yawn like the hippopotamus, candidly announcing your

desire to sleep to even mortals buried in their

corpses,

 

Scream like the dinosaur, with a single echo of yours

silencing all commotion in this world,

 

Stare like the mammoth whale, making your opponent

blink a thousand times,

 

Hear like a fox, detecting the most inconspicuous of

sound, coming to know of your adversary, before it

actually commenced to attack,

 

Laze around like the tortoise, not bothering to poke

out your head even in the most scorching of sunlight,

 

Shine like the stars, punctuating the eerie darkness

of the night with your spellbinding glimmer,

 

Burn like fulminating lava, igniting the most

lackluster of individual with the ardor in your

flames,

 

Dig like the mice, making your burrow in loose mud at

lightening speeds,

 

Hide like the reptile, evading all traces of light

existing in the Universe,

 

Peck like the woodpecker, chiseling your way through

the most obdurate of wooden log,

 

Crawl like the spider, mystically weaving your way

across the strands of the flimsy web,

 

Swish like a zebra, moving your tail to wade away the

most minuscule of fly buzzing intermittently around

your nose,

 

Eat like a pig, greedily gobbling even the tiniest of

toffee wrapper loitering on the road,

 

Change color like a chameleon, adapting yourself

furtively to virtually any surrounding you go into,

 

Hunt like the vultures, hideously diving down and

capsizing your prey,

 

Be wise like the owl, prudently opening your eyes in

the dark as well as stringent light,

 

Care like the lioness, protecting your child from the

faintest signs of evil lurking around,

 

Enjoy like the otters, having a party of beans and raw

wine well past after midnight,

 

Explore like the panther, mercilessly paving your way

through the remotest corner of the forest,

 

Love like God, annihilating the word "discrimination"

forever from your adulterated brain,

 

And lead life like a man, wandering and discovering;

struggling and romancing, dreaming and working to

transform all your dreams; as well as those of several

around you into an immortal reality.