She Speaks

By Kowsalya T

“Hello everyone in me, I hope you all living a happy and prosperous life under my shelter. I am everything, I have everything, and I give you everything. But you are temporary. When I say you, it includes anybody/ anything that exists in me. You all need me for your existence. I am like a mirror/ boomerang/ karma, what you do, I will make sure to give the equal amount in return. Good for good; bad for bad. And no, no compromises in that.

I hold a wide range within me.

Many years old plants to yesterday germinated seeds; A gigantic wild lion, tiger to small, cute looking kola, rabbit; A killer eagles to words repeating parrots; A huge blue whale to small fish; Also, from territorial land mass to bluish oceans to white snow fields to greener grasslands to puzzling forests to everywhere, everything is mine or may be, its all actual part and parcel of me.

Hey, wait, forgot to tell you about one creature living in me. The creature that reforming, developing, evolving each and every day. The creature that thinks they are the crucial part in me. The creature that thinks everything revolves centring them. The creature is none other than you – humans –

I never gave dominance/No.1 positions to any creature in me. Because I see/believe that each and everyone in me has their own role and all the individuals makes the complete‘me’. But these stupid humans think that they are the dominating one, everything revolves around them. If they don’t exist, nothing will exist blah, blah, blah...

Let me tell you what the humans are doing, in thought of they are the predominant in me,

1) Humans disturb other creatures in me for their own selfish purpose. Ex, humans killing hen, goat, fish, prawn, crab etc (as the list goes on) and consume it. I don’t create them for this purpose of becoming food to humans. Please note, even for consumption there is a limit.

2) Humans change the purity. Air, water running in me is so pure in its own form. But humans in the name of development, increase the polluting components from factories, industries, which mixes in air, water and ruining its pure form.

3) Humans interrupt other creatures’ daily life. I specifically designed the environment for all creatures living in but these humans go and construct luxury house, highways, factories in the wild animals, birds, plants living place.

4) Adding new products which are not familiar to me. Eg, Plastics. This plastics made by humans are useless and highly a terminator to my biogeocycles.

5) I had my own period for every season. That are calm, normal, predictable. But because of humans’ developmental action, the seasons were collapsed. Now the seasons are unpredictable with downpours, acid rains.

6) Destruction. I am highly angered on this issue. Humans highly destruct the environment, especially forest areas. Who gave them the power to destruct/ deforest ? They don’t have an idea of how many years it was taking for me to make a forest. Ex, the Amazon, the Sundarbans.

In the past few years, they are exceeding their limits and checking my anger level. I am, being the balance maker, should control those who try to dominate, right? So, sometimes I punish

humans in the form of earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, rise in sea level, extreme heat and cold temperatures.

Also these idiotic humans, they don’t even live happily even after destroying me. They fought/ kill each other. They have sadness, anger, jealous, depression and ‘n’number of diseases inside the body.

After I am sharing all my deep down thoughts, I hope you found ‘who am I?’ Yes, I am MOTHER EARTH, who holds you till your lifetime.

So, what as a Mother Earth, I need from the humans (a small conclusory note). Humans, do remember,‘LIVE AND LET LIVE’. ‘YOU ARE NOT THE ONE INSTEAD A SMALL PART OF MOTHER EARTH. ‘MOTHER EARTH NEVER NEEDS YOU FOR ITS HEALTHY EXISTENCE BUT YOU NEED ME’. ‘FOR EVERY ACTION THERE WILL BE EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION FROM MOTHER EARTH’. ‘I AM BEING YOUR MOTHER, WILL LOVE YOU AND

ALSO PUNISH YOU IF YOU DID ANYTHING AGAINST THE NATURE’” Yours lovingly

ME!

By Kowsalya T