Earth Day

Dear beloved ones,
I am mother earth, as you proudly called me once.
I am still your dear mother, though you rarely address me so these days.

How much I love you. !!
Neither can you guess nor can I reveal !
The last trace of my feeble smile too is lost.
I have turned barren now.
Through my nerves, that flowed the rivers and canals with the sweetnes of the shower,
flows the steamy waves of the molten rocks.

When for the first time life pulsated in my bosom, the thrill that I experienced, words nor the changing seasons could reveal.
From the seas, through the lakes, on to the land and into the sky, life permeated far and wide.
How I endeared that bliss of a mother giving birth to her children.

When at last, the masterpiece of creation, man was born, how I danced with pride.
Though small among my cousins, I was envied upon by all of them, for my life bearing motherhood.

I knew my children, who swam the seas and the mighty oceans, those that sprinted the
grasslands and climbed the mountains, those with wings that soared the skies far above the
clouds.

Yet, for me, the humans who walked the earth, tamed the animals, rolled on the wheels and
even flew over my soaring eagles, occupied the pride of position, deep within my heart.
I loved him, he was handsome, his partner was fair and beautiful and those kids that
wondered at everything they saw on me, made me proud like an illustrious matriarch.

Little did I knew then, that those proud moments would spell my ruin.
Unlike my other children who felt always happy with me, you never seemed happy but cherished a greedy grin

You began to look at me with your molesting eyes, to grab even my honour.
You drilled me dry of the precious gold, silver, copper, iron, and oil.
You did not hesitate to drain me off the last drop of water, I preserved over millenium to keep my children cool and slaked for generations to come.
You cut my green foliage, broke my bones to build your skyscrapers and dams to divert the flow through my veins.

You burned chemicals and plastics, split atoms for your fire spitting bombs and fought your wars, emptying the world of its life sustaining oxygen.
You filled my sinews with chemical waste from your factories and tanneries, spread nuclear waves through my brain, damaging everything and making the green earth a deadly desert.

I am blind, deaf, naked, starving and unable to breathe.
I hear the chimes of my death knell from near.
My beloved children!
For your sake, I beg you to stop torturing me.
Every harm you wreak on me, is nailing your own coffin.
Remaim calm, be in peace, make yourself happy with what you have alredy exploited from me.

If you choose to leave me in peace for a decade or two and desist from the harm you are
doing, I will recoup to my youthful days and you can regain your youthfulness as well.
For your sake, dear children, spare me from harm.