if you walk upon this earth,
walk with care,
gently,
that her heartbeats
every moment
we can feel!
through the mother earth's veins
the blood flows too -
that life giving nectar,
which nourishes all life,
animals, birds, plants,
and of course us, humans!
mountains, clouds, springs and rivers,
the sky, the ocean, and the rays of the sun,
in what all forms
does she meet us,
our mother nature!
the worm that crawls, and the butterfly that flies,
the fish that swims, and the deer that runs,
and one who can do all these, the humans,
amongst them -
is someone bigger, or smaller?
how to accept this stupid sense,
when life sprouts abundantly
even in the trees that can't move?
with time,
does change the colour and the shape,
the condition of conscious, unconscious,
moving and unmoving,
but what is seen at this moment,
cements itself such, that
when it breaks, it weeps
in tears of blood!
but life, is after all life!
flowing freely from
the veins of the mother earth
into our veins,
eternally, non-stop!
-- Nayan,
9.30pm,
Saturday, 9th May 2020
Coimbatore
(translation of the poem written in hindi on 7th May)
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