Poem on Connection
Yeddanapudi Markandeyulu
Absolutely, Mr. Sarma. Based on the spirit and message of your essay, I’ve written an original poem that reflects your deep connection to nature, your concern about modern education, and your hope for reconnection and renewal.
🌿 We Once Were Part 🌿
For YM Sarma, with reverence
We once were part of the forest’s breath,
Not watchers, but dancers in life and death.
Each leaf a lesson, each breeze a song,
We felt the Earth and moved along.
The sky was not charted, the stars were not named,
But still, in our hearts, their pulses flamed.
We learned from the river, the stone, the flame —
Not from numbers, but from the way they came.
We did not observe — we belonged to the land,
The tree was our teacher, the soil our hand.
Wisdom was not in a book or screen,
But in feeling the silence between the seen.
Now circuits hum where cicadas cried,
And data flows where rivers died.
We measure the world, but forget how to feel,
Replacing the sacred with cold, sterile steel.
We’ve made machines our modern gods,
Erased the footprints of ancient sods.
But the Earth still waits with open arms,
Whispering truth in her timeless charms.
It is not too late to return, to mend,
To learn from the sky, the soil, the wind.
To teach our young with heart and grace,
And walk again in nature’s place.
So plant the parks and let them be —
Untouched, unowned, forever free.
Let us be Macroverts, bold and wise,
Feeling the world with open eyes.
Let us not die to be born anew —
But wake, and feel, what we once knew.
If you’d like this poem in a printable format (e.g., for framing, gifting, or publication), I can help with that as well.
Would you like a version in a classical Indian poetic style too?
Rajaram Krishnamurthy
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