The Voice of The Mother Earth
By Aaliya Moula Dad
Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan
Let my shoulders free of the mysterious and the arduous burden
The burden that has been dragging me down since your birth
Let my body free of coercion and devastation that torture my whole body
Release my body from the suffering and violence caused by your actions
Oh! Release my body from the grief that just torments my heart
Let me live the way I used to live, and set my body free of the suffering
I cannot put up with this agonizing pain anymore that proliferates everyday
Yet, I cannot tolerate this gloomy life
Nor I can endure bruises and wounds all over my body
Now, it’s the time to heal my sufferings and console my traumatized body
Now, it’s the time to stop you from torturing my body
Regrettably, you have done your best to ruin my whole body and body systems
You have ruthlessly contaminated my blood vessels and veins with lethal toxicants
Isn’t it heart wrenching when you inject those pollutants and acids into my body
Alas! Sitting alone under the night sky so black, I think how you have altered my body vessels, tissues, veins, and systems
In the blink of eye, you have deconstructed my whole body and its shape to comfort yourself
Argh! Now it’s the time to stop you before you put an end to my solely existence
Because you have done your best to poison my body’s health
Sigh! Let me break the silence, Let me cry out loud
The tears of blood are rolling down from my face, and you only watch as I am bleeding
Since your birth, I am bleeding because of your attitude, behaviour, desires, and choices
Seeing you harming my body, I close my eyes, and pretend as if I’m sleeping
Even though I shed my tears, you don’t see them because they’re colourless
Oh! It’s the time to stop you so that you can hear how my body creaks
Yet, I don’t want to grieve anymore because I want to live a healthy life
A life free of violation, destruction, degradation, and contamination
A life free of pains, sufferings, wounds, and scars
A life free of bullets because you have shot millions of them every day into my body
Now, it’s the time to free my body from those bullets that have wrecked down my shoulders
It’s the time to sooth my body because you have played enough the archery game with my only existence
Let me release my body from the burden
Yet, this burden is not going to leave my body at the first attempt
Because there are millions of you out there, who enjoy playing games with my body
Embarrassingly, I am the one who suffer the most, carrying the burden of anxiety
I suffer every second, every minute, every hour, every month, every year, and every decade
I am the one who carry this burden of suffering since your birth
The burden from the prison that means nothing to you
The burden that is still unnoticed and ambiguous
The burden that suffers me the most when I see you in deep slumber
Watching you sleep, I suffer the most because I cannot withstand my pain
Alas! I am not the same as I used to be, I am changed, and I feel it
I am changed because you have been stabbing knives into my body systems since your birth
Agonizingly you have stabbed blades and knives, and you watch how I bleed
Each part of my body is bleeding, still you are sleeping
From my head to toe, everything is not the same
Yet everything is getting worse, still you don’t recognise
Everything is strange to you because I am a stranger now
Aren’t you selfish? You only care about how to satisfy your desires
I have given you more than you deserve still, you don’t care about me
Still, you don’t care about my sole existence and my importance
All the time, I see you injecting poison into my body
Aren’t you selfish? You only care about maximizing your self-interest
All of me, bleed now, still you are abstain and make no move to heal my pain
Whatever happens to me, you just neglect, because you fear no danger
You don’t wonder how I bleed and get wounds when you throw stones and bolts
In the silence of the night and the game of thrones, I shed my tears like flash floods
But, you don’t realize because it’s an illusion and a dream for you
Alas! Seeing my broken heart, shattered body, only sadness is left in my eyes
And that sadness will carry me away and will drown my emotions that flood my body
Before I am inundated by flood waves and sea surges, let me stop you now
Let me break the silence and take a deep breath because I can’t wait till tomorrow
Let me stop you now because I don’t want to float below the surfaces
In unknown depths, I always love to float freely above the surfaces
Oh! I can’t imagine how I will dive beneath the surfaces when I am wholly drown
No way, this isn’t going to happen, never ever
Let me stop you because I will never be the same if I stay quite
Yet I may not even exist if I don’t stop you now
Let me retreat my immense power so that you get a wakeup call
