Today we feel caged, suffocated;
losing our freedom, we feel helpless.
This is how birds and animals feel
as we take over their lands;
this is how the forests felt
as they are ruthlessly plundered.
The sky didn’t seem blue,
rivers and seas turning black, sighed!
If only Man would pause
and see around him.
“Listen to us!” they shouted.
We had to pause
and so were we stopped.
We saw that the sky can be blue,
a night sky full of twinkling stars,
that the air we breathe can be fresh and pure
and the rainbow can be seen.
Freedom lost perhaps ,
Knowledge gained immense!
Let’s value it!
-By Prabha Raghunandan
