Partition

One eye, one ear and half a nose,
That’s all that was left of her,
Half a smile and a single tear,
Her possessions after the grand loot,
She had teased them, incited them,
Raised spite between her two sides,
Told an arm to hit the other arm,
Jokingly at first and then, they saw,
Glaring differences in their similarities,
And so they thought to cut it off,
The other side, the other arm, the OTHER,
Bewildered she tried to take charge again,
But in vain, for they had pulled out spears,
Wanting to rein the body holding the two,
She screamed but they had gone deaf,
Crying, she saw her arms turning blind,
They rose higher; louder grew her screams,
They ripped her in to two and continued,
Assaulting her body with her own hands,
She was divided and distraught, and numb,
The arms were in pain but celebrating too,
As they watched the tortured face;
The divided face of the mother Earth.