You throttled me to croak
And burnt my clan alive
You smouldered me to choke
And uprooted my life!
You unheard my call for help
And my pleads were snubbed
I waited for ages for you to realise
I’m the life that you breathe
Let me live so that you could survive
You were busy building concrete
On the ashes of my woods
I was still shouting to ‘stop’
And warned for the collapse
You were madly on the spree
To construct by destructing me
Now the circle is complete….
You are gasping for breath
And caged in your jungle of concrete
© Charu Gupta and Potpourri of life.
Charu 