(A heart felt cry from the soul of Earth Mother. Are we ready to listen to her?)
What Am I Now?
What am I now? A haven once!
Now a shriveling wasteland.
The oceans, once a blue girdle
Swelling unfathomably
Swallows me, python-like
The azure sky, a diadem
Adorning my head,
Now deprives me
Of life-giving air.
Of life-giving air.
My children, the humans -
Destroy my forests, trees, rivers,
Hills, and vales rebelliously.
The living land - to cement jungle
And garbage pits reduced.
I don’t know what I am now!
I am sick with cyclones,
Tremors and fire storms,
Yet the thirst for survival besets me.
Senile, losing control of body and spirit
I wonder! Do my children,
My earthlings, see my struggle?
Will they revive me to survive,
harmoniously with them?
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