'Welcome to this well, <br />My friend, please tell <br />How big is your sea-well? ' <br />Asked a frog in the well. <br /> <br />The sea isn't a well, <br />And has no circular wall <br />Why don't you go and see? ' <br />Said the frog of the sea. <br /> <br />'No, if there's no wall <br />As tall as this well, <br />The sea water will <br />Seep out as well.' <br /> <br />'You'll go to the hell, <br />To me, if you again tell <br />That sea has no wall.' <br />Said the frog in the well. <br /> <br />Aren't there village folks <br />Even today, in their walks <br />Of life full of darkness <br />About the scientific progress? <br /> <br />Ask some of them why <br />An eclipse on the sky, <br />Of Solar or Lunar? <br />This'll be their answer. <br /> <br />'With its mouth wide open, <br />A serpent swallows the sun <br />Or the moon, causing eclipse.' <br />What an unbelievable nonsense? <br /> <br />'The end of the world is near. <br />Let people start their prayer <br />On the nearby mountain <br />As the catastrophe is certain.' <br /> <br />Some run up and down, <br />So saying to every one, <br />For this danger unseen <br />By the people, not keen. <br /> <br />The scientific knowledge <br />Should reach every village. <br />Then will there dwell <br />Any frog in the well?<br /><br />Rajaram Ramachandran<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-frog-in-the-well/
