Dr Molly’s poem depicts Earth’s degradation due to human greed. It calls for balance, exclusively for Different Truths.

Mother Earth 
              weeps
taxied by 
    man’s ruthless
intervention
          making it 
a graveyard 
       of corporate 
inorganic
              dumps
with the 
     secret connivance
of greedy hands
             gnawing 
groping 
        for interests 
          selfish... 
 
how do we 
        strike a balance
between 
        growth and 
sustenance…
 
the soil weeps,
our riverbeds weep...

the broken up
           hills, blurred, 
where the 
        Quarry exists

amidst 
                blasts 
and breakups...
 
nature 
        struggles
suffocates
          to death...
 
our paddy 
                  fields 
loaded 
     with buildings
 with interests
       mercenary...
industrial units
         shopping 
complex...
 
how we get 
            reports 
of rare types
       of cancers
canker like
       destroyingeven the budding
      innocents...
 
polluted air,
               water
foodstuff, even
       babies in
womb affected...
 
 On another
                 side
wars,
          wanton 
killings...
 
when will
           we learn
the basic ethics 
     of cohabitation,  
    “to live 
and let live.”

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Dr. Molly Joseph

Dr. Molly Joseph is a professor, poet from Kerala, who writes travelogues, short stories and story books for children. She has published 14 books,12 books of poems, a novel and a story book for Children. Her poetry with its unique style, has been characterised as "Ribbon Poetry." She has won several accolades which include India Women Achiever’s Award 2020.Her latest book, Water Sings over the Stones, won the best Poetry Book of the Year Award from ALS. She believes in the power of the word.

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