News traveled across the world
Swifter than a supersonic jet
The earth had quaked revengefully
Crushing, toppling burying the dead
Alive a while back, now submerged under the rubble
The shrieks, the cries, the desperate wails
Buried under the ruthless sky
The young, the old, the youthful buds,
Babes in arms, those unborn
Trampled, crushed, swirled and hurled
Under the mound of rolling dust
The bricks, the mortar, restlessly drowned
The cries, the wails that shrieked around
The houses shattered, the temples crawled
The towers toppled without a crown
The mighty Himalayas, the Everest shrieked
Don’t dig me up… it’s not a treat
The lonely trees, the depleted wild
The agony of the deceased cried
Don’t stalk me off, don’t saw me too
I sustain you all … don’t you see?
Now watch the ruin He has brought
Wake up before Time is lost.
~Shobha Diwakar
Jabalpur, India
Its a beautiful poem portraying the reality of unthoughtful development that we humans have undertaken. You have painted the reality of destruction &suffering very well. Lets hope we will now respect Nature more than we have done in the past.