History has been cruel to us

And hence changed our geography.

The new and old economy abandoned us 

The market plays a different tune and we are not able to sing

The tunes of theirs, 

For we have been singing the songs with birds,

Trees, mountains….

Now, in drawing, you have been teaching us to live with

Concrete trees, chemical water, coloured our lives with smoke…

Oh! In science, you searched Graphite and phosphate mountain

At our home, in our fields

Thanks, your palaeontology preserved our ancestors’ bones as primates

Physics teaches about the movement of mountains, rivers and villages

Living with trees, birds, animals…. was our motto, 

But your sociology gave us a different model

It has changed our psychology and physiology 

We ask, how can we leave the river….

Zoology taught us to dissect our hearts and feelings

The chameleon reminds us of you

Literature has flown off birds and the fragrance of flowers

Calculation has been beyond our reach, we were happy with the little 

Your games have tricked our land.

Welcoming death and opening refugee camps in the west

Politics has taught us that we should move from this place

New leap teaches us how easy to uproot roots.

Oh! Please don’t teach Love, for you destroy what you Love

Oxygen is less and carbon statistics have enveloped our

Forests, our parents, are crying 

Language doesn’t die on its own it’s like the extinction of Dodo

My bad. My apologies for my ignorance and babbling…

We respect you, as our ancestors taught us, 

Their philosophy was of harmony