Man and Superman

 

This planet, mother earth,

is one body,

When she is happy

the flowers bloom,

Ravaging floods are her tears,

Green pastures are her skin,

The verdant forests lungs,

Beautiful lagoons and lakes her eyes.

 

She is joyful, angry, kind,

cruel, healthy, sick,--

all these at her various parts,

Forest fires show her anger,

Spring dews on a rose show her joy,

Fruit-laden trees show her kindness,

Volcanoes catapult her seething anger,

She flaunts her health

in pristine rainforests,

She shows her sickness and famished body

through deserts and ribbed sand dunes.

 

It’s a living entity,

Your very own Goddess mother

holding you on her palm,

Why seek godliness

far away in the cosmos?

It’s right here around you,

in you, in her,

Sadly we can’t see

what is already at home

and faraway we roam

looking for clues to divinity,

But all this while we just

walk away from it.

 

There is an imprint of godliness

in you, trees, ocean, flowers, snows, birds;

in everything,

Own it, accept it,

When we talk of seeking bigger truth,

we have a vision of the sum total

of our own tiny ones,

When we talk of godliness,

we mean our own humanness,

So stop, pause, rest, relax

and feel the super-reality

with your own super-self,

It’s in you, around you, just nearby,

Worship this home deity,--

our very own mother earth,

You’ll have paradise here only,

The unknown milestones of the afterlife

will blossom and manifest here only.