Lim Chui Choo
The falling rain moves like strings on a harp, waltzing across Bukit Kiara in harmony.
Mists rise thereafter, shrouding the hill – almost heavenly.
“Take Me Home” sings in my mind.
Where life is old at Bukit Kiara, yet younger than the trees, and all seems fine.
Human greed, however, has devastated the living green lung
By the people meant to protect it, but who are power-spellbound.
Chopping wantonly hundreds of trees for a questionable RM40m JLN Vanity Project.
Exposing massive acres of the forest to the natural elements, despite TTDI residents’ repeated objections!
Heavy rains struck from 18 to 20 April, thundering Mother Nature’s warning
At the insidious rape of a gazetted forest park that is moaning.
Mud slides flow swiftly to collapse a retaining wall.
How can derelict drainage withstand the onslaught at all?
Who pays the price for decisions made by the Powerful
As residents reel from the floods and mud flowing into homes, fearful?
“Turun Padang” by the Powerful is mere par for the course – for show.
When the “right thing to do”
Was a halt to the JLN project – by those who knew.
Why are “upgrades to the infrastructure” only after the disastrous fact?
Will taxpayers’ money flow down the drains again – a knee-jerk act?
How effective is a “review of slope development guidelines” by clueless fools
When the veins of a Green Lung have been callously ripped apart?
Ambushed by a developer intent on building condos on the right
And the Powerful grabbing land on the left with a green light.
Will Bukit Kiara still stand, growing in the breeze
With Greed gobbling up the Commons with ease?
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Lim Chui Choo
Bukit Kiara
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