Petition update1. Stop blocking Thoubal River and filling up of the Mapithel Dam reservoir & 2. To stop Mapithel dam construction till all rehabilitation process acceptable to affected communities and their free, prior and informed consent is taken with.On a Sinking Home

Ningkhangam AkhanUnited States
Jul 8, 2015
(A tribute to Dam affected Homes)
On a Sinking Home.
I walk through the bank of the river shore
There could I marvel a part of me submerged
Day in and day out
Bit by bit I break.
I look around
There I realize I must hurry.
The very part of me is on that mountain.
Songs of my love,
The burning spark
Rooted
On the ground
trailed to the beginning.
My back hurts.
My shoulder crunch.
My vision blurry.
I could not hear distinctly.
Must I part with a heavy heart
Never to return.
Do I separate
between my story and my life?
The mark on every tree tells a thousand stories.
Every pebble echoes the journey of my life.
Thousands of footsteps side by side, vaporized.
I have too much to loose
In a flooding wavering light
Of iron bars and boulders.
Over the mountain
I have a nest
Leaking
Shattering
Strangers
Soaked
shivers
Crumbled.
Written by: Masopam Kasar
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