Oh Mother, your tears roll on

Mother! you weep for your son, and another son and yet another son! Fodder to the misshapen morals of this world! Shot in cold blood! Again and again! Each bullet screaming out the rage of hatred! What God would train a piece of metal that way? Hear those voices singing hymns of some unseen spiritual head! The rattle of words that become rattle of guns! this battle ground was once the land of the cultured, the civilised! Cradles harboured love, schools values, and life was a journey of joy! Oh! mother who has made your womb a production line of such despondency? Every child born is a victim of savagery! Savage who pulls the trigger or the victim at the end of the nozzle are both from a mother’s womb! Mother! Who do you pray to for justice? Your religion has been marketed and sold too! Tall architectures that speak of God, let loose on us the designs of the devil! Where do we run and hide mother? If only you all had the powers to refuse to lend your flesh and blood to be made victims of this insane land! Oh, Mother! Let us all start afresh! Let us create a world, where every child born can be shown love and be taught that this human land was designed for peace and happiness! Oh, Mothers of this world, it is time to stop your flood of tears! Only mothers know the heartbreak of a lost child! Every tomb harbours tears that was once a reason of joy when in the womb! The world watches silently as the injustices continue unabated! Yet we have faith in the power of mothers! In your purity of love that only your heart can generate, that may one day make us all realise that we are all children of the same mother. Mother, you are nature, and Nature is Mother!