Don't help me........but, please don't pity me!
Mother, please don't weep,
I know you have millions to feed,
let your wealthy children survive,
rejoice and live.
One stomach can wait,
One tear can halt!
My throat is dry ,without water.
Hunger ,chewing me every bit.
Eyes slowly closing down,
limbs burning in this heat.
Yet, I bow my head with pride,
with no guilt ,of hurting anyone,
no shame, of selfishnes,
no fear of death ,which awaits!
Let me embrace death , with courage,
free myself ,from this painful cage.
Let me spit on the face ,of greed and desire.
Let me be the prey for that vulture's delight,
and surrender myself to fight,
fight this 'chakravyuh'.
Life , you know, is a kurukhshetra,
and, I am 'Abhimanyu'!
Mother , do not weep,
the giver of air, wind , sky and sunshine,
with no barrier , border or wall ,
please don't weep,
so what ?, among your other greedy children,
you could never , hear my call!
One soul,will leave,
one hope, will survive!
Please note:
* chakravyuh - a strategy used in the great Mahabharatha war .
* Abhimanyu- a young warrior who was assigned the duty of crushing the chakravyuh.
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dear queen,
the picture was so touching, that it directly prick the heart.........words can never be a substitute.
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dear dev,
thanks for visiting, but more than that thanks for sahring this wonderful information about the picture.
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what more can I say............thanks, thanks and thanks!
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And there was this poet
subrahmanya bharati
who said
let us destroy the world
even if a single soul; goes hungry due to lack of food...enjoyable ....
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Yes I did a google. The photographer was Kevin Carter who won the 1994 Pulitzer for photography for this image. He commited suicide the same year. He was 33. After clicking the pic he had shooed away the vulture and taken the child to a feeding centre.
Read more about this image here
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The vulture was waiting for the child to die before it started feeding on it.. I do not remember whether the photographer rescued the child after clicking his award winning snap but if memory serves me right the photographer committed suicide later...
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Anguish expressed very well. Nature has enough for man's needs, but not for man's greed. Famine is man's creation.
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Life of course is a kurukhshetra,
and all of us are 'Abhimanyus'!
well said!
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a touched my heart !!!!touching piece of poetry!!!
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One soul,will leave,
one hope, will survive!
Beautiful and touching poem...Loved it....yash
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