Teach Me To Care And Not To Care Poem by Ponniah Ganeshan

Teach me to care and not to care

Corpses adrift and were cast out ashore
With heads severed.
I came and cried
Fitting my head to the torso
Of the dead body
And weeping and shedding tears
And accusing you.

Then,
You came and cried
Taking another headless body
And fitting yours.
You wept and shed tears
Accusing me.

Oh, dear friends,
How to learn to care and not to care
Or else,
To conceal, in this land of grievances
The boundless love
Confining it to a nutshell
And grieve and lie
Like a rock, a rock and a rock.