My Home Poem by Namita Rani Panda

O' my sweet Home!
My lovely Home!
Leaving me alone
where have you gone?
Now in this home away from home
feeling lonely without dad and mom!
No mom to carve a loving warm kiss,
No dad to shower blissful blessings,
No granny to sing lovely lullabies,
No grandpa to tell bedtime stories.
My life is full of No No my Home!
So lonely I'm in this crowded home
with so many children but no one is mine!
This home is a home without warmth,
with no mirth.
A calf in a herd of cattle I'm,
a puppet in a show,
a shrivelled up seed,
with no power to breathe and grow!
No sunshine and cool shower
but only the scorching heat of the caretaker
as if I'm a rootless weed,
there is no one to feel my needs,
untidy hair, skin not anointed,
stunted growth with discarded clothes
pot-bellied with bamboo legs
pale face with hollowed eyes,
sunken cheeks with parched lips.
With hungry eyes and aching stomach
I'm scared of myself as a living scare-crow.
My hope disappears
like the dew on the grass.
O' my sweet Home! My lovely Home!
Why don't you come back soon?
O' my God! Please give me answer
To feel my feelings why do people fail?
Why do we go for the destructive war?
Why do we like bloodshed and horror?
Why do children like me suffer?
Why are there so many religions?
If we all are your loving children
Why do we fight without any reason?
Why do we mercilessly stand and stare?
Why don't we love and care?
Why are people rich and poor?
Why do some prosper where as some suffer?
Why on some fortune lashes?
Why to some fortune blesses?
If love is the best language to use
why do we need so many languages?
Why do men have insatiable needs?
Why do we torture one another
if we all are brothers and sisters?
Why do flora and fauna bitterly cry?
And to save them we hardly try.
Why can't we settle differences amicably?
Why can't we live peacefully?
So many whys revolve in my mind.
Please resolve them, you are so kind!
O' my God! Please give me back my sweet home!
Please give me back my dad and mom!
Please!