Spring Cleaning.. Poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi

Sleep, the little hearts around the world,
In the comfort of your mother's laps,
the world that we will leave behind,
For you, the future youth to feel and handle.
Laced with Herbicide, pesticides and infertile,
The polluted rivers, oceans, wind and mind,
Ignorant human not know to dig and grow,
Deprived human not own lands and farms,
Innocent human are in the comfortable nests,
Thinking they are at the top of the hills and forests,
The chain of mass production out of cheap labor,
The escalating price of housing and health care,
No hand be available for charity and free help,
Greedy people struggle hard to pay the bills,
The new culture from the distant land,
Arrives on your ports in big containers,
Sleep, babies, sleep, until you grow up,
On the bosoms of your mothers and immigrant maids,
Tricky business entities out to reap profits,
You are the additional number for them to count,
non degradable plastics and poisonous chip boards,
‘More the merrier', people stopped the thought,
You may be left alone in the wild world to hug,
The bears as big as the adult size from the shops,
Sleep, babies, sleep now, and then you may not rest and sleep,
The cleaning has to be done before the dumpster is full,
The tongue of the flame and smoke from the silent fire,
Will lick the greenaries and heat up the oceans,
Wake up, Parents, start the spring cleaning!