The Redemption! Poem by Varanasi Ramabrahmam

They find water on the mars
And ice on the moon;
Are engaged in finding God's particle
By colliding fundamental particles underground;
Probe the space and solve the mystery
Of the origin of the universe;
All this is for our advancement in knowledge;

Is it all for us?
When will we transcend the divisions
As religion, region, nation, language, caste,
Community, poor and rich?
And live a life of harmony and give and take?
Unless we probe us and within us collide
Good and bad and allow only

Good to triumph
Our lives will be cut into pieces
By the bombs of the fundamentalists
War waged against terror by hypocrisy-filled
Democracies and their allies;
Greed of world leaders and evolved democracies;

We have peace within and around us
When we behave responsibly
And with a serene mind;

Else all our civilization, culture and explosion in knowledge
Will be subjugated by chaos, anarchy, and daily deaths;

All Gods will help us if
We help ourselves
That is the way to our
Redemption and salvation from ugly happenings