Vanishing

vanishing into water

full of life or lifeless

from microscopic to gigantic

named and called earth by

Man, the ultimate creature on the planet

on the scale of evolution

whose pace is incremental

insatiable in quest 

for what he believes

to be progress

is also doing his best

instead, unknown to himself

to perish

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Bhashwati wrote:

Vanishing appears to me to be ice eggs nestling in a complex hydrological womb.

Pleasingly soothing to the eye but almost ominous to consciousness because all our pretensions notwithstanding, we are most certainly melting down with the planet and faster than we would like to acknowledge.