People Once Lived Here: Manoj Murmu
People Once Lived Here
When everything gets reduced to maps,
every mountain, every forest, every river,
and the soil carries
just a file number,
then where will you keep
your dreams?
When fields belong to corporations,
when even air is taxed,
and every drop of water
is trapped inside branded bottles,
then where will
thirsty hearts find peace?
We learned from trees
how to stand strong,
from rivers how to keep flowing,
and from the earth
how to stay human.
But when the land itself
is no longer ours,
then what will we become?
Then maybe,
you and I
will meet in the corner of a page,
like a margin note,
where it will be written:
“People once lived here.”
Talbariya, Barhait
Sahibganj, Jharkhand
Email: manojask143@gmail.com
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