Love's God or God's Love, <br />It makes no difference with a dove, <br />For its life, was no better, <br />In the hands of an Hunter. <br /> <br />'My Lord! ' asked the dove, <br />'Tell me, What's love? <br />Born-free, am I, to fly high, <br />Or, born-food, for others, as a fry? ' <br /> <br />'Take me not home, for your bite, <br />Allow me to live, it's my birthright. <br />Thus, my Lord, with my freedom won, <br />Let my life go on, right under the Sun.' <br /> <br />The hunter stood spell bound, <br />For no good answer, he found, <br />As for him, the word 'love' meant, <br />Killing-spree birds, in his hunt. <br /> <br />Why God was so partial, he thought, <br />That, no matter, one life was caught, <br />For another life, to feed on its prey? <br />Oh, God! Was there no other way? <br /> <br />Suddenly a voice from the sky, he heard, <br />That spoke, 'My son, it isn't only of the bird, <br />What you thought of, just now, on the earth, <br />God loves every living being from its birth.' <br /> <br />'Say! No one eats flesh, but only grass, <br />Will not the earth be full of grass? <br />If all the creations eat only grass, <br />What becomes of the fate of the grass? ' <br /> <br />'One wild animal eats not another wild, <br />But the one that eats leaves and grass, behold! <br />So, a grass-eating deer, isn't a vegetable to a lion? <br />Yes, as good as a potato to a vegetarian? ' <br /> <br />'Will not this earth be full of animals, <br />With no planned growth, nothing but chaos? <br />The fittest will survive, is the law of nature, <br />But God loves all the creations, be sure.'<br /><br />Rajaram Ramachandran<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-is-love-36/
