This is ‘Kalikal” when everything and everyone
Will act just the opposite.
Rains will flood and create havoc at
Untimely times, cold waves during summer,
And as the heat burns you in winter,
Look around and inside yourself my lovelies.
Are you a doctor for whom the patient’s well being
Is the last priority on your list?
Are you a lawyer who saves those
Who are eating away the society’s fabric?
Are you a teacher for whom moulding the
Younger generation is just a chore done half heartedly?
Are you a farmer who is flooding the soil
With pesticides, and making the food poison?
Are you a wife spending fortunes on beauty products
While your house is in a total mess?
Are you a mother chasing her passion,
Who is not available
To kids in their lonely moments?
Are you spitting on your wife’s face at home,
When your colleagues in the high-tech office,
Are applauding your foreign education and
Position in the company?
Why child, was there excessive production of saliva
In your mouth, that you had to download it where you did?
And then, as a CEO, when you slapped your wife,
Who is also highly educated and your colleague,
Was there no inner voice telling you not to go ahead
With this heinous crime?
Is this how you are paying back to those mothers,
Who brought up their daughters so lovingly,
And gave them to you in marriage?
What happens to their tears for the daughters’ pain?
Will Mother Parvati be disturbed too and
Bring justice?
Look deep inside, are you going with the flow,
Or are you exercising the power
That the Almighty has given you?
Yes, there are some who do so, it is they
Who are helping to maintain balance,
And giving hope to those who want
To live life in alignment with
The Universal precepts.
