Something for the love of villages

After yearning for so many days to go to villages

Finally got to travel to villages after a function

The scene outside the train on both sides

Turned out to be green, green, green all the way

On the entire stretch of the journey

For once I felt happy, excited to see the villages

Elated to realise the dreams of villages come true

Was it the lure of hidden money or treasures

Stashed away in villages? indeed there were treasures

When i alighted from the train to actually visit them

The treasures of serene pollution free environs

The eye soothing green plants, trees, green paths

With few buildings, living tenements, small population

That inhabited the village number one, two, three I visited

Unlike the buildings, towns ,cities that replaced the villages

The built up concrete jungled towns, cities to remain so

I wished the village milieu remained an endless stretch of villages

Villages are saviours of environment, soul of our country

Just as our souls in our inner recesses of the body

In the remote interiors of country, with true nice behaviour people

I m here out of love for the villages

To do something for the love of the villages

For their betterment, without upsetting them

Their oneness with the nature, by educating them,

help set up tiny agro processing units

It is a wish of all well meaning village lovers

To stop men, material and money flowing out of them

To make the money flow to them from the cities

Where villages become fulcrum, focus of living in this country,

that’s doing something for the love of villages, Amen!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

N.B:- My other love for space, astronomy, et al may wait for a while. There is a chance to integrate them later, poetry always accompanies so it is all inclusive