622. Song Among Atrocities Poem by Raman Savithiri

Hunger teeth will not spare
Tender sapling out of its pod
Breathing egg waiting to hatch
Wobbling newborn breast fed

Ever going food chain
Cares not creatures’ pain
Yelling out is mere vain
This is the truth plain

Millions and millions of years
Countless bloodshed earth bears
One who witnesses this cruelty
Is sure to be moved into tears

And what to tell about human ego
The havoc it made since long ago
From the time of mahabharat epic
To modern age what does it depict?

The atrocities made by malice mind
The injustices done to female kind
The brutality committed to lower casts
Will make any one to bleed in heart

Caught in the same whirlpool
Pressed by the age-old social life
When violence stages its play
How does helpless anger will display?

Howling unto unseen Lord
Drying tears by friend’s words
Dissolving pain into sky vast
Trying meditation where ‘I’ is lost

What can a pathetic one do?
When a day begins a question strikes
Why this monstrous life and strife?
Ignoring it, the ignorant tails daily chores!