The Rudra Shiva awakes

Listen,

Homo Economicus,

The rolling drum-beats

 Of the

Lord Shiva;

The Compassionate One,

Is now angry, and

Manifest

In the fierce Rudra form,

The loud drum-beats

Distant, yet so near,

Terrible in sound

Like a

Wounded river

Roaring and pouncing,

The Rudra- Shiva,

In a dance-pose;

His feet slowly

Stamping, and thus

 Dislodging the

Silent rocks,

Cleaving roads and mountains;

 His eyes are red,

In this mini-Tandava Nritya

That shakes the holy terrain;

Terrible reverberations

Of the divine drum

Rock and

Dislodge the top soil,

And produce the slides;

There is death

And destruction

Everywhere;

His fury is finally unleashed,

Divine wrath visits

The sacred grounds,

Because you

Deliberately ignored

His earlier signs;

Listen to the rolling drum,

Now, at least,

And pay heed---

You, the dulled

Homo Economicus,

And do not annoy

The kind God further

By your unrestrained arrogance

And unlimited greed.

 (Occasioned by the recent Uttarakhand disaster of June 16, 2013)