The Earth Poem by Pranab K Chakraborty

how could I repay the debt
to my earth
who has given me a wide range of forest,
expanded ocean,
a sky full of stars at night to brood,
wind unaccounted and light of eternal source
which never been extinguished
when I crawl to grasp a negligible longing

how could I
how could I repay
the debt O Earth
my only womb to nourish all ideas
of rectifying own self as well as to share
with other habitats

just think a king naked but dignified
with the option of making a heaven or hell
every inch burns himself as a straw in the dark

Pranab k c
12/09/2021