Poem -24
Hope
By Mariam Roshan Zachariah
So what if the sun blazed
and the moon cried into the lake –
So what if the wolf howled
and the pack relayed it around –
So what if the trees misunderstood
and bloomed too early or late –
So what if the grass still grew on …
did it mean that no one cared?
Just because some are bad
Breaking the piano in the quad –
Just because so many children
Are hungry and yearning love –
Just because people are warring
And doves are getting scarce –
Just because anti-socials are prowling –
Does it mean that all is scary?
I am not of this world,
I am not of that world,
Yet I can be good
and humanly bad –
I am the earth
hurting with insult –
I touch the netherworld
sensing their remorse
I am bits of everything
I can only get better,
Hoping and ever changing
~ Roshan has always loved the artistry of surgery. Now with age, poetry and haiku has found expression. Her published works include – “Stitch Together and Sing Again – a rhapsody” – a collection of her poems (2023) and contributions in “What Else Is Rain?” – an anthology of poets of Kerala origin. (2024)
