The Mother of mothers

A jewel in the sky An offspring of the star Revolving around her mentor With resolve and passion The mother of the mothers gave us space, water, air, food, Sun, day, night, clouds and rains We returned it with smoke and flames With myriad of turbulence and furor She kept us in her lap, safe and breeding With warmth, love, affection and care We throbbed in the shadow of her eyes The crazy, selfish and ungrateful With ceaseless and unending appetite Hiding wild desire to swallow all Devoured her charm and affluence Ever forgiving and compassionate She continued with motherly bliss Absorbing the stresses and strains With tolerance and magnanimity The ignorants may turn their mother Into parched and lifeless land Wiping out all her bounty Imperiling their own existence In the name of God, with rays of hope Let us wait for the day When the wisdom dawns On the naïve, obtuse and the oblivious.