So Then She Flew

Little Ila of warm Indian waters was born without fins but with feathers. “Fishes don’t fly,” they constantly told her wings in water are just a bother. Tightly she wound them close to her and tried her best to keep up with peers Oh, she once even tried to pluck out her feathers so she wouldn't look like a fish out of water. But as she grew, her wings became larger and surely you realise, swimming became tougher. Was she the only freak of nature, she spent her time in depressed wonder Then she met the turtle who seemed wiser and gave her a dream of a sky up higher There’d be hills and vales and trees and flowers and an eternally bright cloudless summer. The journey was arduous but nothing could deter little Ila to defiantly labour up to the border Then the sun shined in her eyes, struggle just a blur, with a leap of faith soon she flew… out of water.