I am a frozen
body somewhere amid three oceans. Speck on a triangle!
I have
been for a long-time, only I know my era better than those live here, can only
imagine how times have changed as time trundles over decades.
I have
become so contemporary I have never liked the way I am than before. There is so
much gold in here, I can’t tell. No avoid bloodshed.
I
always had everything bountiful for natives who take birth here, rations garments
and asylum. I have all they want here but never explored much.
I am
clothed in emerald turfs and beautiful river that flows like unruffled silver
born on the hill-tops after a rain drop crashes down, cutting valleys.
My skies
are bluer than sapphires; my sunsets are precious than glowing gold, my nights
alluring than one thousand brightly lit cathedrals. It’s Love!
I am
not so famous but winged far-off ambassadors fly miles, here to nestle over my
trees I’m a baby-sitter and a sweet mom for their chicks. It’s care!
My rice villas are stripped for coins; my magnificence
is vanishing as men become covetous, it’s a culture shock to me and my senses.
It’s my pain!
Some of
my children have flown off forever I never see them back again. I see some but
they vanish in no time on fields forced to high-speed lanes.
I lean
back and watch their busy lives, I don’t wish to say this but I smile to myself
someday you are all mine forever. Sadly they might never like this.
I am devised
so, it’s a curse or a blessing I am not sure. I am meant to be so I can keep
people for a while and take them off like it or not. Life’s fragile!
Greed
and pride makes my people disgust each other; they ask me for more. So many
children, men and women are deprived to people’s voracity.
But I
see all of them someday beside my river, others come to rest between those hot
graphite tablets embossed with their names curled in dry weeds.
Don’t be happy
about birth nor be sad about death.
I am a town called Nellore!
Where do they head after here? I know where they are?
Where do they head after here? I know where they are?
I am programmed to keep silent until the time
comes.