We love to celebrate! Birthdays. Weddings. Anniversaries. Festivals. Poojas.
I often wonder - where does all the trash from a celebration go?
Does a human kid's birthday bring about an animal baby's death day?
Or does a rich nation's kid's birthday pollute a poor nation's kid's every day?
Does our joy make someone else's life painful?
Does it all come back to us? How? After all - what goes around, comes around!
After Party
"Just a plate
And just a spoon
Just a bottle
And just a balloon
Just a bag
And just a party popper
Just a box
And just a candy wrapper
I'll put in a trash bag
And send them away
Where does it land?
Can't think - have had a busy day!
It can become a sea creature's food
Mistaken for a prey
Or get entangled in its neck
As it tries to swim away
A feathered creature
Might proudly hop around
Pleased with herself
On having a shiny morsel found
Or
It will sail in a container
To a far away stead
Where a wasteful nation's filth
Is paraded as poor man's bread
Young kids scavenge
Through mounds of trash
Drinking leached water
Breathing polluted air
Oh that sounds so horrible!!
But it's so, so far away
I won't think about it
And everything will be ok?
What matters right now is
Here and now
My guests have been pleased
And my kid's day has been wow!
