When the world returned God's gift...

(Originally written in 2015)

The sky was clear, trees flourished with fruits and leaves,
Ponds with fish, birds chirping happily.
There was life everywhere, yet it felt void of something, someone.
Then God introduced man, His best gift or that's what He felt.

Slowly man, got to know the ways of the world.
He lived happily with others, he experienced things that no life had experienced.
Even the world was about to experience things it had never experienced.

Man started controlling fire, the same fire which terrified even the mightiest of the creatures.
He could survive the winters, which killed many life forms.
He could cook and eat almost anything.
Fire made him powerful in the eyes of the other life forms.

He invented the wheel, nothing special just another cylindrical log.
But now he could go faster than the fastest life form.
He was now powerful and had the speed.
He started racing against time.

His understanding of the world and about himself grew, thus grew his greed to take over life.
He now knew he was the smartest, he knew only he could bring change and he was self-proclaimed king of the world.

He now studied electrons, and thus the light bulb came into being.
When all the life rested during the night, man worked.
He now controlled the day-night cycle.
It was the day when he wanted it to be.
He could turn the night into day by clicking a button.

He was now happy.
He felt he was different.
He thought about life, the universe, and philosophy.
For him life was now not about survival, it was more about bringing change which could make him happier, to satisfy his desire or maybe greed.
Was he selfless or was he selfish in a sense?

He killed when he wanted to. He ate what he desired to. He'd kill without consuming it.
He was no longer a part of the food chain. He wasn't a producer or a tertiary consumer, he was the controller of the food chain.
He decided what should live, what shouldn't.
He tamed the mightiest and dangerous animals.

He now competed within his own race. Borders were formed. Religions were now common. Discrimination was prevalent. Man started hating his counterparts.
The thoughts for the welfare of the race instead were focussed on the society, then on the religion, then on the family and now finally on the sole individual.

Money gained importance, trees lost their. The barter system was now completely taken over by monetary transactions.
Man controlled the world. Money controlled him.

The age of industrialization came. Farms changed to factories. Farmers changed to employees.
Men worked in factories. Women stayed at home or worked in factories. Children went to school or stayed at home or worked in factories.
Useless products were manufactured from useful raw material.

Life became modernized and superficial. The clock gave life a quicker pace.
There was a time when the whole earth was home, now the word 'home' was defined as a 25*25 square feet closed block built in a building, technically in air.
Life had changed. Man had changed. The world had changed. Other life forms mourned by seeing the condition of the world.
And God regretted creating man ...

The sky was now grey, trees without leaves,
Ponds without fish, nests without birds.
Pollution had killed everyone including man.
Man had thought that he could bypass life, but he himself had planned his extinction the day the first man was born.