ratnaprabha raykar - earth

Madame Earth beckons Mars,
'' my plight will soon be like yours''
senseless children bent upon
philandering my gifts...air, water, forests

In their morbid race to modernism
their myriad cars, buses smog me
with lead and carbon
their factories are choking my rivers
to their greed for lands and minerals
my forests are a sacrifice
their callousness have burned holes
in my cloak of ozone
I no longer can shield them


May God give them a little wisdom
lest they end up in a barren terrain

ratnaprabha raykar

ratnaprabha raykar

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