Part 1: A Mother's Cry for her Child
The fight for your Gods
With the God's child in tears
The pain of it borne by the Mother, Me.
The tears percolate to me
To add to my agony.
You, Cultureless Vultures
trample this child and me,
All the blood spilled somehow
outshining these innocent tears.
When your values devalue a life
What is the point of such a strife
The weight of it
I bear it like your mother
Since the conception of you
And the inception of your guild
On which nodus you build.
What difference does it make
whether beliefs differ
When you can't defer
them to eternity.
Fanaticism to any idea
is never the panacea
For it destroys the world
The idea tries to outline.
The riots so riveting
The child with the true emotions
Lies ignored motionless in between.
As a mother, I beckon,
Let these child's tears be a beacon
On which you can reckon
A unity in diversity.
I beg you, The bearer of your woe,
To relieve me of this woe,
For a child remains crying
Confused whether he a friend or a foe.
Part 2: Thirst
No matter how many stones
they threw at him
He kept wagging his tail
to get food for the child.
His barks to calm down the cry
of an infant in a bin;
To summon God themselves
For help.
Glittering lights
All around those rabid
With lust for the skin
As They walk hungry
While an infant in
Real hunger wails.
All the tears roll down
From the sky above
To somehow suffice
the thirst of this infant;
All in vain.
The cry for humanity
Is all in a vacuum
by noise of the voice
For bigotry,
That is allowed
to be heard
With this rime concluding
Just as the rime of the night
Concludes this infant life.
Part 3: The Night's Light
There is this woman I see
who keeps the money close to her chest,
As if bearing a child.
Counting the stub
Not knowing her days are counted as well.
She had hit a lottery,
The Lottery of Labor.
Makes her way,
Walking down the alley,
Not in the gait of a woman,
But as a dog carrying a bone carefully.
Not knowing that this wild hits both the dog and it's bone
Her heart beating rapidly
With the stub as fresh from the Mint,
It shed light to the glowing eyes.
As she walked with the limbs adducted.
Eyes on figure; Eyes on chest.
Knowing curiousity killed the cat,
The men went their business.
She ran home,
To shed light on her home,
With no festival abound
Only to be soaked in water.
This is all happening
in the same air
We breathe as freedom;
Why must we wipe tears
To wash away our sins
Why need a preacher
To tell us to love one another.
Independence to me
Is to help nurture
Than to seek nature
In a person.
Resident
KMC, Manipal