Oh Mother!

You fashioned me with tender love and utmost care,
Woke me up with the musical chirpings spreading through the air,

Gave me fruits of varied tastes and many a companions in animals,

And I leaped jumped and played in happiness in the jungles

And when night fell, you sang to me through the lovely whispers of the wind

You rocked me into sleep wrapping warm blankets of flowers,helping me unwind

I built sand castles in the lap of your beach

Magnified them and started living a little out of your reach

But you were proud, for I had found something mine, a creative lil hobby

One day,I who never plucked a bud hitherto, axed a flowery tree for my luxury

You squinched but forgave me, thinking it was just an innocent gaffe

Though worrying that I might be turning this heaven into a riffraff

And I went on and hunted my brethren, my dear animals,

You stared, shocked and appalled at how easily I could kill my own pals
built something emitting black smokes, a machine I called it, choking you further

You coughed and I ignored, you bled and I didn’t even bother

But again you forgave me thinking it was just a brutal chapter

Though it hurt you, you were patient; you waited for me to change, to alter

I wasn’t paying heed to any of your pains

You understood that all I wanted was control over your reins

Then you showed your fury-shook the earth, wrought floods in the ocean

I was scared and vowed to take care but forgot all about it, yet another treason

Building many, polluting more, ruining most

You were counting my mistakes, I didn’t know, for I was a mad ghost

One day when I woke up, all I could hear were unpleasant cries

The changes brought about had suddenly hit me between my eyes

There was only the ruthlessness of sunrays burning my face

The harshness of wind cutting my skin, not a thing to embrace

Diseases, plague, pestilence spreading like wildfires

Stench, dirt, dust accompanied them as faithful squires

Not one twitter I could hear, not one sweet note I could listen to

Not one sweet blossom I could smell, not one fragrance I could drown into

Not one brother I could play with, not one leaping deer I could see

The vultures of my fate were circling above me

Where has everything gone? I was ignorantly trying to find my lost treasure

Everything has been taken away; the realization was more agonizing than a seizure

I saw your waters turn blood red, swelling and ebbing

I heard the wind’s howling, gasps of your weeping

I saw the volcano bursting with the hurt you gulped down, blistering for revenge

I felt the sky above me thundering, ready to avenge

I felt land beneath me trembling in shame and disappointment

Disappointment for carrying a child, bearing everything for it like a peasant

The realization has hit too late, I cry for the flora and the fauna, Oh mother!

And above all I cry for your comforting lap Mother!

Now I’ve learnt my lesson, please give me another chance

Please let me snuggle in your protective expanse

My heart yearns for your love, kindness, for everything that you’re Mother,

Punish me but don’t throw me away from your feet Mother!!

Oh Mother!

Have mercy Oh Mother!