Go Home Maa

A poem by Dr. Parneet Jaggi

A twilight town, a  purple sky,

Rattling  wings up there high.

A mouse appeared nervously low,

A  quaint   music, a horn to blow.

Someone’s gone leaving the waters

Moved and rippled, hushed matters.

The parapet frowned, retrieved the stance,

Called the  skies to have a glance.

No man would look- a matter mundane

No tear would flow- an act insane.

Sky lowered its eyes to it,

Another  innocence wisely dipped.

Voiceless, visionless, restless soul

Looking around for a mother to console.

My soul is no more in the search,

A body needed once to perch.

Air the guide, water the father,

Earth a shelter, none to bother.

I was a girl you left in the well,

Go home Maa, go sleep well.

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Note: The above poem is about female foeticide, how it has become a commonplace phenomenon in India. Even the mothers have become extremely insensitive and indifferent to this crime, and the conscience of humanity seems to be losing its voice.