Save the saplings...

by Madhumathi H.

Tricolor carries hope, light, yet

Grey, colorless, dark as a new moon night

Enduring storms, hurricanes in their minds

The youth of our land, are brittle, broken inside…

The only known pace, is haste

Their only instruction, ‘’Win the race’’

Children don’t choose to be born

Parents choose to bring a child to the world

Greedily live their dreams, through offspring

Expectations, pressure, clipped wings, trashed dreams

Suffocated inside, the buds shrink before blooming...

Comparison, the thief of joy

Oh isn’t this enough, to strangle a soul?

‘’Be like her, be like him, be like them” but Never a, ‘’Be like you, I love the unique you!’’

Overwhelming syllabus, hovering exams, judgemental society

Identity, buried deep

Meaningless luxury, lifeless gadgets, social media, Fomo...

Where will a child’s heart take shelter, when in pain

While the world is too loud, and rude?!...

When will the children feel, ‘’heard, understood, trusted…?!’’

Metamorphosis…

Each child unfolds in its own time

If only their roots are watered with love…

If only they are allowed to fall, to fail

To take time to heal, learn, rise, and fly…

If only people look into the eyes, have deep conversations

Give reassuring hugs, for the inexplicable aches children carry

If only we don’t label them, "Attention seeking’’

But handhold in empathy, to heal their wounds...

Broken relationship, some children’s battlefield to face each day

Or be an unhealed parent’s victim

Enduring traumatic childhood...

Many, fiighting the bullying, shaming world outside...

If only love, kindness are in abundance… Therapy begins at home...!

Children healthy at mind

Nourish the roots of a nation…

Poverty is not just lack of food, materials, comfort

Loneliness, feeling unloved, are poverty too Children starved of empathy, roam around fatigued

Hushed when help is sought, pushed to the verge of quitting…

The mind is a garden

Water with love, fragrant flowers bloom

Shatter with abuse, weeds effortlessly grow

Tender loving care - the only drug they need Children deserve to be happy, to breathe peace

Shall we let them dream, let them be?...

A bilingual poet-writer(Tamil, English), Madhumathi. H is an ardent lover of Nature, Poetry, Photography, and Music.

Her poems are published in Anthologies of The Poetry Society(India), CPC- Chennai Poetry Circle's EFFLORESCENCE, IPC's(India Poetry Circle) Madras Hues Myriad Views, Amaravati Poetic Prism 2015, and in e-zines UGC approved Muse India, Storizen, OPA – Our Poetry Archives, IWJInternational Writers Journal, Positive Vibes, Science Shore. e-Anthologies Monsoon moods - Muse India, Green Awakenings - On Environment, by Kavya-Adisakrit.

Ignite Poetry, Breathe Poetry, Dream Poetry, and Soul shores have 10 of her poems published, Soul Serenade, Shades of LoveAIFEST, Arising from the dust, Painting Dreams, Shards of unsung Poesies, are some of the Anthologies her poems, and write-ups are part of. (2020 to 2022)

Besides Poetry, Madhumathi writes on Mental health, to create awareness, break the stigma, believing in the therapeutic, transformational power of words.

Contact: madhumathi.poetry@gmail.com Blogs: https://madhumathipoetry.wordpress.com

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