I am sorry!

Millions of years ago, some super power, some force or God or Nature or whatever it

is, began it's work; Stars started burning, Galaxies started

forming and solar systems set themselves up. And among all these stars and their

planets, Earth was picked up and decorated over another million

years with animals of all shapes and sizes, and plants and all sorts of things. It had

interesting types of soils and sands and rock formations. It had

water; as water, as steam and as ice. It had sandy, golden beaches and thick, lush

forests and breathtakingly beautiful snow covered peaks and

heartstoppingly vast deserts. A mad, wild wind roared over the oceans and ran

abandoned through the forests often caressing his beloved Earth with

a gentle, loving breeze. The waves loved the land; through the endless tranquil beaches

and the rough, angry cliffs, and the land loved it back,

promising to be with it forever. The birds sang the Sun to sleep every evening as He

settled in his bed of waves and then again, woke him every

morning too. The moon kept company through the night, least the darkness got scary

and the stars arranged themselves into pictures so the

dreams could be good. And it was a gorgeous, beautiful world.

And then, like two parents would place their first new born in a crib for the first time,

in a room they've spent months in preparing for their baby,

Man was gently placed in this crib. He got love and affection and so many things to

hold his attention for years at end. But that is where

everything started to go wrong.... Man grew up and grew so much, that he forgot

himself...

I look around me today... and what I see, makes me cry....

Hatred, fear, blood......

Not only has man killed other life forms, but is also killing his own people! And for

what? Because someone's skin colour is not like his; someone

doesn't call God by the same name as he does; or just for a little more land to make a

few more buildings, or a little more money...

Infanticide! Dowry deaths! Murders! Rapes! Crusades! Wars! Terrorism! Preventive

measures to stop terrorism!

Each minute, another head falls off as humanity inches away from mankind.

Hundreds, Thousands, Lakhs and now Millions... and the toll is only

rising... What is happening? I ask myself... Where are we going? Is there no way to

stop this wheel of destruction? Why doesn't a tear moisten

one's eye when he thinks of being inhuman to anyone... or anything for that matter? so

much hatred, it is only pushing more people over the edge

to become the monsters they were not supposed to be...

Why is everyone now a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, or a Pakistani or an

American or an Iraqi, or a Black or a White or a Chinki, or a Man

or a Woman, or a Capitalist or a Marxist?

Why??

Whatever happened to being a 'Human Being'?

And a ringing silence meets my plea for an answer...

And somewhere, deep within me, I realize that the end is near. I don't know if it will be

a Nuclear war or an ice age or a solar expansion that will

end the world as we know it or if the earth will churn to extinguish everything and start

new again. I don't know if it will be tomorrow or after

another thousand years. All I know is that the end is near. Like someone with a fatal

disease, I know there is a very slim chance out.... VERY slim.

And in this moment of realization, I think of all the damage that my kind have done;

there are more blood stains on this planet than trees. So

many species have vanished. So many souls have been troubled...

and like a man atoning for his sins, I fall to my knees, join my hands, close my eyes

and bow my head... and I think of all those spirits which have

been hurt or broken throughout these centuries blotched by human errors... and very

sincerely, from the core of my being I say to them.....

I'm Sorry.......