Mother Ocean!
in your lap
We floated with dream – but
Why did you become the god of death and
Take our lives?
what is the myth behind
you taking lives of
our mothers, babies who can’t speak,
grand mothers and grand fathers who lived for us,
uncles and aunties and
younger and older brothers?
when we were energetically beginning our morning
you destroyed us unexpectedly.
Mother Ocean, who guarded the poor’s life,
Why did you kick us hard this time?
where is the house we built?
where is the temple we worshipped?
where are the people who were surrounding us?
after everything you did
why are you sleeping now?
When we were living
Like the wood destroyed by the termites,
Mother Nature! Why have you showed us your evil side
And traumatized us?
We thought we were the only ones without relatives
but now you made everyone like us too.
No matter how much devastation is put on us
Without a frown we will rise again
- Mathanasegaram
(Vipulananda Childrens Home / Class 8)
01/2005 |
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From then to now our people are dying;
Losing children, mothers and fathers
People are still living,
Arise a question, when is this peace-thirst
Going to stop? Tell!
The people who lost their fathers, left their mothers
in a market place when the shell fall over
The people who became corpse in seconds - their
Legs and hands spread in different sides
Like herds they had died
The people who promised ‘we will come’
In mouth full of words, became corpses down the corners
Broken in tears there are people who weaken in a second-
Seeing that number had been increasing from then to now
In a time to go to school, in those childhood days
In that time where children supposedly play with sorrow less days
Those days where we ate tapioca and been happy became
The time where beast-mouth monsters residing with us
Clouds unite and thunder with lightning occurs
A breeze’s wave will run over our homes
Madness will be gone and the war will be ended
When is that real peace is going to blossom?
When are we going to live?
- K.Prasath
(Vipulanantha Home/ Class 10) 10/2004 |
Tsunami waves
Why did you hit us?
In the name of tsunami
Why did you destroy half of the earth?
Memories shattered
Like strucked coins
Have you spread
The sorrows you brought?
Didn’t you feel our sadness that time?
Don’t you feel the tragedy now?
Tsunami wave
Why did you kill our neighbours?
With huge waves
Why did you destroy the village?
Before they wake
Why did you take their lives?
What sin has a small kid committed?
Without a trace
Families destroyed
Ghost-like waves
Made us corpses
Can’t overcome –
In heart breaking sorrow
Can’t forget – still
Fresh memories
(Written in memories of Nishanthan’s death)
- Satheeshkanthan
(Kathiroli Home / Class 8)
01/2005 |
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