WAITING... by rooma mehra And the mountains freeze Waiting for love to happen Garbage dumps, smoke, tree-wood corpses Frozen inside a shivering teardrop Red, chrome, pale, white The sun shines over a mountain head And the teardrop melts Drop by drop by drop by drop Waiting for love to happen.. But crystals of smoke from garbage Burning under a tortured tree Leafless, branchless, headless Melt to rise in the white sunflame Waiting for love to happen.. The stench of smoke from treeless hills From the cremation of tree corpses Rising to the ticking of the sun-clock As not so faraway a battle rages Waiting for love to happen.. Crystals of smoke from battle Rising to the cries of torture Headless, earless, eyeless, shackled Warriors frozen inside a teardrop Waiting for love to happen Bodies on the roads Bodies on the hills Woodless cremations Cremated wood Mountains inside frozen teardrops Tears frozen in dead eyes Tumbling mountains and tears Crushed white doves at sunrise Waiting for Peace to happen Piece by piece by piece by piece Waiting for love to happen Drop by drop by drop by drop Waiting....