Look Back Poem by Mohabeer Beeharry

Look back

The fear that you sowed
And the war that you caused,
The blood that you shed
And the cities that you destroyed

The children that you forced in hunger
Pain and homelessness
The lives that you destroyed
They will all one day claim their price.

Run as far as you will
This earth that you bled
Will be right there..
Under your feet
To claim the price of her tears.

All actions have their reactions
Nothing is swept under the carpet here
A cosmic law.

And when it comes,
It will flood.
It will quake.
It will be an eye
For an eye.

Nowhere for you to hide.
Chased by your own destiny,
Hills or mountains will hide.
And death will wait
Till you are cleared.

This is not your world, my friend.
The sooner you realise
That you are only a tenant here,
Not the landlord
The better it is.