When I Flood I Weep Poem by jayaprakash panicker

When I flood, I weep


My love for you is never lost
Nor is my will to keep you alive
Now on my lap are all the tears
That you shed down in sheer loss.

I have so many beautiful bounties
As rich as brooks, streams and falls
I' ve much more than you imagine of
For all whom you may make way for.

Time and again, again and again,
Like a mother to an erring child,
I have beseeched you to be able
To be on your guard and be kind.

When you dug deep, when you razed down
When you felled flat, when you erected asky
When you fought and laughed at all around
‘Deep deed down you may look' I've said.

Whirl-like I fret and feared myself
And in a frantic move I just settled
Against your dams and their valves
But never have I wanted to flood.

Sad I am, now, anguished I am
And in great agony I feel sinned
To all of you who are so sadly put
As the elixir of life, I beg, pardon.

If ever I flood, I'd turn myself
So, so ruthless and real uncouth
As those who've moved against
Me, my ways and my motives.

With all my love, for all of you,
That has never been lost once,
Here beneath my bowl of angst
I keep you awhile to mend you.

I am your very water,
The water of all lives
The water of your blood
And of your own tears…I weep when I flood.

A. Jayaprakash.