Baba Seechewal ji from India visiting Canada these days to share his experience about cleaning enviornment around us – air water and earth. When he came in 2008 I had an opportunity to meet with him and learn so many things about his efforts to clean the muddy Baiyeen river in Punjab.
Enviornment Guru from India Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal- keeping clean Air WaterEarth
Baba Seechewal ji speaking at JarnailArts Gallary Surrey
Mother I will be born again!
I look into the mirror
a history shrieks at my back
I carry the ruins of the civilization.
Every woman does. Every mother does.
I look into your eyes: the darkness
life perhaps is walking dead
through me and someone tells me:
you shouldn’t be
shouldn’t be alive.
This is a night before,
this is a moment before
I allowed myself
to be scraped out
of your womb,
my unformed
unborn shreds of tiny body.
The devil of tradition
takes over and hovers upon you
the very moment
you conceived me.
They say they see a devil
in a pregnant body,
fearful of the unknown
demand only male air
which sometimes they
themselves don’t have
in their male body.
How easy it is to play ignorant
and blame a woman for
not delivering a male child!
History laughs.
Nothing has changed
between now and then
from the ancient midwife’s
making the newborn baby girl
suck her poisonous thumb
to see her unborn body
through ultrasounds and
wash her out. Difference?
Only it looks more accurate,
more sure, professional,
and six months time saver.
After I opened my eyes
for the very first time
in the day light
I found myself alive
pulsating, and crying.
Only after sucking on
the poisonous thumb
I was declared a dead-born!
Now it has changed.
I am not even allowed
to be born.
Sex-selection labs,
testing and selecting
the only sex: male!
considering female foetus
as sub-human demon
her right to be born
is taken away!
Traditional bound parents
find a relief in aborting
their female air.
They earn an other chance
a privilege to try again
until they get it ‘right’.
Mother, I feel your sighs
inside your womb
I sipped your salty tears
inside your womb.
You know this sanctuary
this sacred place you offer
for both male and female
is safe temple for me.
Over a span of time
and countless loathings later
I will come again.
I will be born again and again.
I will dwell in this sacred place again!
Don’t you worry mother!
I will be there again!!
You know, I know
if we keep vanishing ourselves
the day is not far away
when the human race
will no longer be there!