The burning city is now dead,
People run away crying and screaming,
Searching for the new life,
Hoping it will be like the old times.
Mothers and fathers with sons,
Old people with their sticks,
Dogs and cats running beside their owners,
And lastly the children, innocent and now free.
They run away from everyone,
They searched a home for themselves,
When will they find a house?
Who knows if they'll survive.
Some will drown in the river of causality,
Some will run down the hill of isolation;
But some will hike the mountain of gratification,
And when at the top they'll see the new city.
The land will be soft after the hiking,
The sky will be blue after the storms,
The air will be clean after the pollution,
The people will now be humans, not machines.
All because they'll learnt to cherish suffering,
All without searching for it,
All because they'll learn to be free Being,
All without denying the river of Life.
Explanation:
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In one of the various versions of the Pied Piper, children are taken to a river and drowned, in others instead inside a mountain and killed, while in those that are now more common, in Paradise. In this poem the children flee alone from their city that wants to remain as it is, wants to return to how it once was. Many children will not come to see the new city, but those who do will do so only because they have learned not to deny suffering, and to live free from the pains and constraints of the past.
