Gaia

I am Gaia

And I cry when the forests fall.

I am Gaia

And I cry because

I hear the people weep

And I can do nothing

I can do nothing at all.

I am Gaia

And I have seen the righteous forsaken

I have seen evil flourish, good punished.

I have seen

The desert swallow the oasis, its windblown sand

Fill the dry skull’s staring eyes,

I am Gaia.

And I have seen the rivers sullied

The air stained with poison,

I have felt the knife

In my heart.

I have heard lies spoken in the name of truth

I have heard prayers for harm to befall

Those who have not done the praying people harm.

I have seen the poor stripped naked

To enrich the rich.

I have seen murder done

In the name of stopping murder

And nobody thought it as ironic

Nobody at all.

I have seen evil done

In the name of God,

I have not seen evil done

In the name of the Devil.

I am Gaia

And I have seen everything

Except one

One thing only –

I am Gaia

And I have not seen

God.

Copyright B Purkayastha 2012