In Mumbai the vultures no longer encircle
the Silent Towers. Our dead are tainted
by earth, wind and fire. Birds have fallen
to the ground, the land lies in shame and nakedness
for we no longer know the ways of the Ancients,
how they made their indigo blue paint outlasting time,
how they put harmony into their lands
how they worshiped the trees before we uprooted them.
Now our rivers are poisoned, our earth is burnt.
Our greed has become boundless
but hunger cannot be stilled by money you cannot eat.

