Jun 27, 2016 Free Verse, Original Poetry, The Daily Post
Deprive
©June 27th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
To become human, you climb out,
Grow legs, totter along, build things.
To become human, you shed the wild,
Grow a mind, shape the world.
To be human, you breathe
And make trees breathe back.
To be human, you make
Something out of nothing.
To be human, you also take
Everything, and forget to give back.
To be human is also to deprive
The earth of her chance to survive.
To become inhuman, you
Tear things down, and go on wheels.
To become inhuman, you shed
Conscience, compassion, clarity.
To become inhuman, you cut down
Trees, lose your breath, suffocate.
To become inhuman, you make
Nothing out of something.
When everything is taken
What is left to work with?
Someone said, “You grow stronger.”
But what if you cannot grow?
Don’t deprive us of this earth
Help us breathe back life into her.
Do not deprive her of the right
To be her beautiful blue-green self.
Be fully human, be fully divine,
Give back to the Mother of us all.
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