This piece originally posted at markwilliamjackson.com
What crime is committed
by stealing a cup from a river?
Surely no one would notice
a mighty river missing a cup,
all the water merely wasting
into the ocean.
What crime to have stopped
a cup of water
from its flow.
Or to throw
a cage over a crow
about to take flight,
what harm would be caused
to the murder
if only one
was held back?
Or through the crack
to let time fall slowly
until a life has passed
like sands through the hourglass.
Who would notice one life
wasted in artificial lightning?
nice one..I believe every life is important in it’s own way!!
Thanks Sunny.
had to read twice..to get what exactly you are trying to convey..I guess it’s depecting the dejection..and the futility of life..right??
Hindikavi; your interpretation is good, the poem is asking the reader if they find it criminal to allow a life to waste away in mediocrity.