Save the saplings...

A bilingual poet-writer(Tamil, English), Madhumathi. H is an ardent lover of Nature, Poetry, Photography, and Music.

- Madhumathi H.

Tricolor carries hope, light, yet
Grey, colorless, dark as a new moon night
Enduring storms, hurricanes in their minds
The youth of our land, are brittle, broken inside…

The only known pace, is haste
Their only instruction, ‘’Win the race’’
Children don’t choose to be born
Parents choose to bring a child to the world
Greedily live their dreams, through offspring

Expectations, pressure, clipped wings, trashed dreams
Suffocated inside, the buds shrink before blooming...

Comparison, the thief of joy
Oh isn’t this enough, to strangle a soul?
‘’Be like her, be like him, be like them” but
Never a, ‘’Be like you, I love the unique you!’’

Overwhelming syllabus, hovering exams, judgemental society
Identity, buried deep
Meaningless luxury, lifeless gadgets, social media, Fomo...

Where will a child’s heart take shelter, when in pain
While the world is too loud, and rude?!...
When will the children feel, ‘’heard, understood, trusted…?!’’