I am Life, I am Death

A Poem

I am life.

I am the flow —

from the skull of destruction.

I am the mother, the killer,

the giver, the taker.

I am the blood which flows in your vain,

I am the storm that breaks your adobe,

I am the crop that grows in your field,

I am the flood that drowns your kin.

I am the choked artery of a nation,

I am the poisoned mother,

I am life, death, birth, murder,

born, murdered, old, but not immortal.

I am Ganga.