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FEET ON THE MOON

Hoped I if some day my mother
would well keep her promise
To pluck me that welkin lily
and put in my eager sleeves !
I grew to notice it a star
big, bright, closer to us,
Only to know later that it
is just a thing like ours,
Though...
No life, no air, no water, but
dry grooves, bare holes only
Shallow and deep - a round hard rock
call'd Moon, not a lily.
So I forsook my Mom's offer,
and my quixotic claim;
So my Mom's dead soul carries not
my discontent or blame,
But endless commendation for
her, and others like her
Who show'd us dream, raised our desire
for the height to conquer...
And human feet now settled in the 
avuncular sweet home
Let we grow air, water, flora
and fauna in its bosom
That before we lose love, lilies,
life, and footprints on here
Depart will we from this hostile home
for Chandmama forever...

                             --- N P Samal

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