• An Inheritance of Concrete written and read by Rochelle Dsilva | Save Mollem #savemollem | Poems for the Ghats

  • Aug 19 2020
  • Length: 2 mins
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An Inheritance of Concrete written and read by Rochelle Dsilva | Save Mollem #savemollem | Poems for the Ghats

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  • I wonder if the trees knew you were coming for them

    They have seen people like you before

    They have outlived people like you before

    Did you stand under their shade while you made your plans?

    Did you dare to call it an execution?

    You can only see as far as your greed

    Your eyes hungry for more zeroes

    You tell us it is development

    But we know it is destruction

    You tell yourselves you run the world

    Drunk on the power to make decisions

    A tree could fall on you tomorrow

    and silence you

    But we need them upright not falling

    We need more of them than us

    Don’t leave your children an inheritance of concrete

    Don’t teach them that highways are better than forests

    Don’t displace the birds and the animals and the fish

    Don’t remove what you cannot replace


    How can you do this to a sanctuary?


    What will you do with their bodies?


    - Rochelle Dsilva


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