Who Gave you..?

Who gave the mandate,

To turn nights to daylight,

Winter cold to summer heat?

Did you not know

The ecological upset,

Your reckless acts might create?

I shall cry out loud and clear

For I fear no such blame,

To what goes on in my name.

I think you are one of many,

In the service of man,

Painstakingly worked flat

To carryout his demands,

Bent on to undermine,

The natural commands.

Night and day, winter staggered to summer,

They come in a package,

As does bilking with the eyes.

Had it not been the case,

Who better knows than I!

For all I care, and all to see,

I am incessantly and, one might add, intensely on fire,

It then follows, round the clock,

I could have set the planets aglow.

For no extra outlay than what is already displayed.

As to my demeanour,

I know no such meanness.

And in fairness I give all what I have

To those around me that revolve.

Electricity, for all times goodness,

Please stay out of my business.

You may think you could do away,

With divine rules that I am.

But warned you shall be,

In the end, you could do more damage

Than you could possibly salvage.

Shall I spell out the reasons,

Without going to depth,

Put aside, trinket, bibelot and imitation that you are,

And would not last forever.

I think, thy shall be forewarn,

Thy are also in the wrong hands.

Following misguided commands,

Manned to destruct what is otherwise beautiful land.

Copyright Haileselassie Girmay

30/7/99