all of you who tonight <br />resolve to blink the lights <br />for two hours <br />and <br />all of you who donot, <br /> <br />know for sure, <br /> <br />that your mother lies dying. <br /> <br />the mother that fed you, <br />drank you, nourished you <br />since <br />you left her teats, <br />the same mother <br />cries for life. <br /> <br />forlorn, forsaken, <br />she lies dying <br />breathless, <br />you have choked <br />her nostrils with carbon fumes, <br />you have left her naked <br />shorn of her foliage, <br />you have dug into her veins, <br />mangling her body and soul, <br />you have denuded her, <br />and <br />helpless, <br />blank-eyed, <br /> <br />she lies dying. <br /> <br />all of you who have resolved <br />to blink tonight for two hours <br />and <br />all of you who donot, <br />remember that, <br />relentless ticks the clock, <br />and <br />little time is left <br />before <br />she breathes her last. <br /> <br />the hand that can help <br />is <br />yours and mine. <br /> <br />may <br />this two hour darkness <br />tonight <br />shriek the message <br />to the high heavens, <br /> <br />that, <br />we care for our mother, <br /> <br />that, <br />we will not <br />let her die, <br /> <br /> <br />because <br />the umbilical chord <br />yet unbroken, <br /> <br />spells <br /> <br />if <br />she dies <br />who lives? <br /> <br />and <br /> <br />if she lives, <br />who dies? <br /> <br />..atp.. <br />29.03.2008. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />..atp..29.03.2008.<br /><br />samyak jain<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-of-you-who/
