Calling for water
queuing up in roads for water
walking miles for a pot of water
has become the way in charter
of M
adurai in this quarter
seeming like a barter
not a worthwhile carter
as primarily water
has become a matter
that strikes with a clatter
the scarcity is not a flatter
it is a real shatter
converting the land to a totter
and the people to chatter
about the pernicious slaughter
of the environment to a disaster
making it unfit to live hereafter.
Meenas Poems 