SIFTING SAND

 SIFTING SANDS

 

Time minuscule lets disintegrate,

Sand, of time shifts, communicate,

Coal engines childhood memories,

Black smoke hisses steam stories, (1)

 

Small gauge railway lines parallel,

Iron wheel rhythmic tune unravel,

Small village near rail lines crazes,

School-kid wave at people amazes,  (2)

 

Remember, running to catch sight,

Live within loving heart life delight,

Sand erodes villages, dream-train,

Simplicity n uncomplicated brain, (3)

 

Fumbles words life peaceful loves,

Love nature pristine timely solves,

Forest products innumerable fine,

Wood honey fruit medicine, shine, (4)

 

Evergreen forest belonged to, tribe,

Ancient tribal culture dress thrive,

Men, women, children in cottages,

Domestic animal, livelihood stays, (5)

 

Festival seasonal celebration time,

Brews, dances with drums define,

Young men women steps unique,

Lines close, rhythms picturesque, (6)

 

Eroding sand dune erased forest,

Erasing tribal life, times bitterest,

Landless livelihoods miss, hungry,

Rule different human world angry,  (7)

 

Savage lives feasting on flesh, lost,

Fast deplete domesticated life cost,

Still hungry new-age human wish,

Search river, lake, ocean, live miss, (viii)

 

Move, truckload cow buffalo feed,

Slaughterhouse worth visit need,

Yesteryears’ milk ghee butter nit,

Egg fish curry delicacy in deplete, (9)

 

Vanishing domesticated lives feel,

Replace forest concrete jungle, ill,

Caged animal modern human feel,

Glass tower takes pride face anvil, (10)

 

Hunger for energy pleasure, issue,

Loot nature, blisters earth peruse,

Green hills vanishing, life hungry,

Time eroded silver coin lif- angry, (11)

 

Million billion trillion, paper, digit,

Vanishes purse treasury bank nit,

Village market grocery spice goods,

Replacing supermarket feel woods, (12)

 

Twilight year of lives at, crossroad,

Shifts sand, new generation inroad,

Greeneries of village forest vanish,

Shifting sand raise dune astonish, (13)

 

Time resemble sand dust in, show,

Custom culture society lives know,

Group family broken, atomic exist,

Me mine living let others die, insist, (14)

 

Tribal dance replace death dance,

War machine smoking in balance,

Penning worries human race live,

Shifting sands tell time to believe. (15)