The lands and mountains are my body,
The oceans are my soul,
The skies are the ornaments,
Which embellish my body whole,
The trees and nature are the garments,
Which cover me head to toe,
Life resides within me,
Motherhood makes me glow.
The sun gladdens my heart,
The moonlight is my essence,
The laugh of a newborn baby,
Justifies my very presence.
Yet my very children,
Who I clutched closed to my chest,
Have stripped off my garments piece by piece,
The grand oak, the humble birch all put to rest.
The glare of the sun now burns my very skin,
Scars on my body, indelible marks on my mind.
My soul has been violated, my existence threatened,
Peace is what I seek, happiness I cannot seem to find.
What children are these who burrow into their mothers bosom,
Sucking out in deliberate motions, the very life from deep within.
Their objects of hatred destroy all life in one instance,
Wasn’t non violence a virtue, is not killing a morbid sin.
My tears have no outlet as they wash away those who were once mine,
The ground breaks as I writhe in pain, destruction I unwittingly cause,
They have sown the seeds, which they shall reap for generations to come,
Don’t they realise, that their mother hurts most as she cries over this unbearable loss.
But their mother I am, Love for them I shall never lose,
They are my own, misguided and foolish may they be in their ways,
The garments will repair some day, the wounds will definitely heal,
If only they stopped this destruction and listened to what their mother says.
Somewhere deep down they love their mother,
Don’t they fight to claim a piece of me,
Foolish are they, when they hurt their own brothers
One day they shall rub their eyes and clearly see
That I am their mother, they are all but my very own,
That their mother forgives them for what they may have unknowingly done,
All is forgiven and forgotten, now don’t repeat this ever again.
Build together a great society where all my children shall live together as one.
- As told by Mother nature to Pranay Rao
http://pranayrao.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-mother-know-best.html
