killing

stomping, hard, on it
i killed the silver fish
innocent
that didn’t come to hurt

but my superior weight
on my boot
just squashed it
for no apparent reason

except, that i am a human
with superior right
to decide on life and death
in this anthropocentric universe

where i have, already, murdered
the creator
of the silver fish
to create him in my own image

Note: Gitanjali Victor's art at the age of 13 in Summer 2002.

Persistent Protest

Neatly made walking trails
along the winding river are marked
by mutual protest, natures’s to human encroachment
and human doggedness to nature’s subversive-ness
reminding me of the bleeding of the eternal enemies
the coiling cobra and the menacing mongoose

At the end, who will triumph
in that inhuman battle against nature
to enhance egotistical human culture

Silently I stay and survey, singing simultaneously
songs of miserable melancholy
and ecstatic exultation

Henry Victor 18.06.2003