Mother Earth
MOTHER EARTH
- Daily tremors,
Mother,
Body yours!
Sometimes convulses
In severe forms!
Twitches, cracks
And melt some parts
The creatures you evolved
Are all devoured!
An aimless hunger
Or a purposeful anger
We know not
Mother,
Can't you please speak? - We have inside us
Nice warmth and flesh!
You have in you
Some deadly hot
Molten matter,
We call magma,
Is it to protect your
Creatures many
From the remnants of your
Passionate youth! - Or do you store your
Mighty power
Deep inside
And show for us
A dumb and beautiful exterior? - But sometimes Mother!
You lose control
Your molten inside
Pours forth outside
Molten metal
Lots of dust, with a
Deadly end for
Anything alive! - Your watery dress
And thin layer
Of airy caress,
Brought forth green
And all that's life!
But sometimes the sun,
Water and air,
Conspire through a
Cyclone, flood
Or a scorching drought!
Many other dangers
Lurk always! - We still live, love,
Fight and hate,
Kill, create,
And search for peace!
We sometimes feel
We can control you!
And shape you
For our immortality!
We lose a friend dear
In a simple way
We suddenly realize
That we are so frail! - Mother! Mother!
Where can we go?
Like an animal
Or bird or plant,
We are not,
You know it well!
They are with you
As a part of you!
We are in you,
But still we think
We have something
Called brain or mind!
Sometimes we call it
Consciousness
'Cause we love many
Bombastic words! - Sometimes we talk of
Universe great
Where you are but
A speck of dust!
Like a foetus
Cursing its mother's womb
We talk of space
And galaxy
Where we can live
In future years! - Mother!
Still you are our mother!
You tolerate us
And give us strength!
You bless us!
And love us!
You save us too!
Can't you shape us
Into better beings?
Y.S. Rajan
23/02/2001