Body Parts
‘What
insensitive siblings!’ mouth did say;
Letting
its long-drawn-out seething overflow.
‘I, all
the time give; out of it now I’d stay.
If you
can’t give, don’t take – that you must know.’
‘You’d
pick the food and eat,’ hand said in reply;
‘From
now on I’m not a part of feeding you!’
‘And
you’d walk to market the food to buy,’
Foot
added, ‘and feel too the pinch of the shoe.’
Eye,
ear and nose joined in the rebellion
And
they turned to mock navel and hair.
‘I
linked you all to mother at creation,’
Navel
said, ‘so what nonsense now do you blare?’
‘Go
ahead you all,’ hair intoned, ‘yes, be bold.
Leave
me and see if you’d survive the cold!’
‘In
being one, no part is irrelevant,’
Nail at last quipped, ‘though the size is like an ant.’
(Verse is taken from my collection, #Colours_of_Life_Love_and_Faith)
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