Mother’s Cry Unheard – Kaushal Kishore

 

In rivers’ gentle flow, they seek not water’s grace,

But extract sand for roads, displacing nature’s embrace…

With rocks they construct, forsaking rarest herbs,

In stone abodes, forgetting the forest’s curbs…

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Once shading providers, trees fall for human needs,

Their canopies yield to mundane structures’ feeds…

On fertile fields, factories rise, leaving crops bare,

Nature’s bounty neglected, her cries fill the air…

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Driven by greed, they plunder without heed,

Like killing the chickens for golden eggs, indeed…

Endangering thoughtlessly both source and end,

A cycle of destruction, nature can’t easily mend…

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Mother Nature weeps, as her children astray,

In calamities’ wake, message she tries to convey…

But warnings unheeded, her sorrow profound,

Like a mother mourning, her love still unbound…

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Yet in her heart, memories of their childhood gleam,

A time when harmony was nature’s only theme…

Oh, wayward children, can you not see?

Your mother’s love, her plea for harmony?

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–Kaushal Kishore 

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EU appalled by World Central Kitchen incident – EUROPE DIPLOMATIC

Brussels 03.04.2024 “The killing by the Israeli Defence Forces of seven members of a humanitarian team of World Central Kitchen, while they were travelling to deliver food to the most vulnerable in Gaza, is appalling” reads the Joint Statement by the EU top diplomat Josep Borrell and Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič. (Photo above: illustration)

“We urge a swift implementation of the announced commitment by the Israeli authorities to conduct a thorough investigation and ensure accountability for those who are responsible.

Source: EU appalled by World Central Kitchen incident – EUROPE DIPLOMATIC