Paris: "Fluctuat nec megitur"- "Tossed but not Sunk."

Paris: “Fluctuat nec mergitur”–

“Tossed but not Sunk.”

It has always been:

“see Paris and live”
today, modern Thanotos
wants it be: “see Paris and die.”

Oh! Paris the intellectual

headquarters of Europe-
the city of-art, literature,
music, and culture;
what a shame! Perses
turning off your intellectual
light, giving your dolor,
wants to make you
a destructive home,
and tombstone of Europe.

What has become of

“Paradise of Europe”?
A classic city-known for its
great walls, thirty-three old and
new boulevards, twelve avenues,
and seven quais.

A rare and historic city,

identified by its un-usual
gastronomy-“bon vivant”-
connoisseurship of
food and fine wines.

A leading European city,

whose 1789 revolution 
re-created Europe, shaped,
and redefined a new republic-
United States of America.

Paris-home to “Grands

Boulevards-Galleries Lafayette,
Boulevard Beaumarchais”;
why are the wicked
drawing blood from
“Boulevard du Crime-
Theatres de la Foire,
Porte Saint-Martin,
Boulevard du Temple”?
After all, these are mere
auditoria to entertain and
to make souls be joyful.

Why are the agents of darkness

staining “Haussmannian
Boulevard” with innocent
blood?
Why making “Boulevard de
Maréchaux weep when not
necessary?

Paris-the innocent and

peaceful city of Europe,
in you-pigeons-have
found peace and dwell,
even doves have built
dovecotes for millennial;
why are workers of
lawlessness causing you
trouble,  
turning you to Golgotha?

Oh! Paris-what are your
crimes?
Why the cruelty, savagery,
and truculence against you?
Why paying your act of
benevolence and graciousness
with belligerence and
bellicosity?

Paris-city everyone

comes-in winter, summer,
autumn, and spring to pick ideas,
just as saffron lovers go to
“Italy, Spain, and Iran”
to make date with it;
why now re-branding you
as city of death?
Why replacing your joyful hymn  
with threnody and coronach?

Paris-why are your haters

changing your identity of
beauty and history to
blood and violence?

Why substituting your

centuries of goodness
with evil and destruction?
Why changing your place in
history-the link between
the past and present to the
seat of network-of-evil?

What have you done to

warrant this carnage?
Your welcoming spirit-
the evil has temporarily
dampened,
your open heart,
the wicked poisoned,
your large heart,
unfriendly pierced
by sword.

Paris! Paris!! Paris!!!

Will you continue to lay on
the ground for evil to triumph?
Will you close your mind,
shut your doors because
of evils of the moment?
Never! Never!! Never!!!

Even as you wail and

curtain drops on many
innocent souls in the land,
streets, roads, boulevards,
homes, trees, walls are
stained with innocent blood;
weep not and fear no more,
but rise up for tomorrow.

Paris-today may look very

gloomy, obscure, and precarious-
for certainty, light shall come
tomorrow;
as you take solace in your
Motto:
“Fluctuat nec mergitur,” 
 “Tossed but not sunk.”

City of Eiffel Tower,

shed tears no more for
today’s cloud;
tomorrow’s sunshine shall
clear today’s darkness.
Remember: your are only
“Tossed but not sunk.”

 

Earth-Our Dying Home:

Earth-Our Dying Home:

From outer space’s window
earth is like an emerald of
four Cs: colorful, cut or
separated into different,
but inestimable multiple
parts;
clarity of appearance, and a
gold bearing weight
of a high carat.

From sun-rise to sunset,

the sun-created-multi-color
refraction gives the earth
a panoramic view-
the rainbow effect-
which has no equal.

Earth-a home like none-

a multi-purpose habitat
for both the living and
non-living things;
home to five oceans
and six continents,
in her are the seas,
numerous rivers, lakes,
waterfalls, and dams of
different sizes and depths.

Earth-the foundation on

which countless mountains
stand,
home to varied and  
many forests by regions,
deserts-small or big-
by different hot climates and
degrees of dryness.

In her bosom are
more than two thousand
organic and inorganic
mineral substances-
naturally preserved in
earth’s crust-
unending wealth that have
sustained man generation after
generation.

Tearfully, I say:
this emerald is sick,
terminally ill-with incurable
diseases-inflicted upon it
by men without conscience;
men-whose god is mammon-
sickness caused by their
cupidity, through rapacious
plundering of earth’s resources,
giving no consideration for
tomorrow.

Daily, earth is left naked by
shameless looters,
every day, earth is devoured
by heartless individuals and
groups-defrauders and
chiselers-
who care less
about today or its future;
rather concerned about
how much earth gives them-
even, if it groans.

By their conduct of

“we-don’t-care-attitude”
now bequeathing poverty and
sickness as inheritance for
tomorrow’s earth dwellers

How Earth has become Sick,

What Inheritance for Tomorrow’s

Dwellers?

Every minute over

twenty-one hectares of
tropical rain forest is destroyed;
yearly, over 180 million tons of
toxic materials dumped into seas.

Instead of giving life by
quenching mankind’s thirst,
oceans, big rivers, lakes, and
multi-national waters are now
reservoir holding poison-
hemlock which set to destroy-
tomorrow’s marine and human lives.

Each year, thousands of
chemicals are manufactured,
three-quarters are problematic-
persisted organic pollutants-POP-
non-degradable toxic substances;
mostly petrochemical-propylene
or methethylene-plastics or
polypropylene without proper
disposable method-
creating health hazards for
future world.

From year to year,
earth gets warmer,
ozone layer-the shield against-
harmful rays is uninterruptedly
depleted;
no thanks to
chlorofluorocarbons,
ammonia, sulfur-dioxide, and
non-halogenated hydrocarbons.

Every day, oceans are agitated-
their levels are unceasingly rising-
coastal and inner cities are
incessantly coming under the
threat of flooding.

Every year, air becomes more
contaminated from fumes and
smokes from industrial chimneys;
from chemical particles,
explosions at mining sites,
and weapons of mass destruction
whenever propelled or detonated,
same air gets more polluted.

Instead of normal precipitations,
acid rains-mankind keep having-
land man ceaselessly losing to
erosion at a fast speed,
because of excessive logging,
over-grazing, mining, and
heavy industrial activities.

Daily, million tons of
industrial effluents
man disposes improperly
into the neighborhood,
with damaging effects on
farm produce and
over all negative impacts on
human’s health.

Noise from industrial

machines, ship yards,
automobiles, airplanes,
increase by the year,
resulting in auditory fatigue,
deafness, irritation, speech
deficiency and physical disorder.

Yes-science and technology has
re-created the world of mankind for
the better,
truly, medical sciences have reversed
some problems of yesterday-
giving mankind some hope for
tomorrow,
no doubt, information technology
has changed the way mankind
communicate,
industrial technology keep providing
wealth for mankind,
more so, improves quality of life.

Regardless of benefits from
science and technology and
irrespective of medical sciences
positive effects on humanity;
many are the negative effects on
moral and physical well-being
of individuals with deleterious and
long term impact on human society.

Insofar as science continues

to travel on the fast lane,
mankind should brace up for
more troubles;
inasmuch as science
unceasingly and
creatively redefines
life through inventions,
mankind should be ready
to confront ethical questions that
may or may not have answers;
and moral burden they
may live with forever.

As long as science and technology

relentlessly dictating the
global pace, and
denials upon denials on
global warming by scientisticians,                    
resolving the conflict between
man and environment
may never happen.

Oh! Cry, cry, cry,
for our dying earth home.