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| Mitali Chakravarty |
Ganga, Padma, Meghna,
Brahmputra, Dibang, Tsangpo
— each river has a distinct name.
Yet out of the womb of the Earth
they flow, merely water banked
by land. Water and land make
plants grow. Humans flow in
streams through meadows.
Boundaries hurt, tear asunder
land born to be free. Would
speech have evolved if
there were no water, no land —
only lava and gas? If there was no
moon, what then? If there were
no stars, no sun? What then?
Would life have reared its head?
Would languages have evolved?
And these lines that explode lives —
would they have been drawn?
We can now detonate hills, seas
and land. Kill our enemies. But would
we have had an enemy if there were no
land and no water? Would we still have
War and Peace? Would love still
flow from the heart of the Little
Prince? And yet, we weep as the
ice melts and wait, wait to act?
How long till Odysseus returns home?
Bio: Mitali Chakravarty writes for love and harmony and in that spirit founded the Borderless Journal.
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