The silky saline water of the seas,
Gets into the fishy groves in earth,
Filling cavities, forming the beauty store,
Lashing the shore, forming a shapely surf.
Nature’s gift the water is,
In body of beings, it is blood,
From the grey clouds it is shed
As water to which we are chained,
When ice melts, it is drained,
During floods, death is rained.
Water is an omnipotent force,
Gliding and streaming into oceans,
Without water, life is a desert,
Omnipresent water forms life’s concert.
( A poem from my second book of poems co-edited by Renuka Raman.)
