Hide and Seek With Life
Two realities.
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“You can never give someone something
without losing it, feeling its loss.”
He tells me, his dreamy eyes fixed on
the currencies quivering in
the evening breeze coming down.
Time is purring from the bushes, shrubs.
The monies disappear soon, like
those clever parrots, always alert.
He is now my appointed guide;
together we enter the verdant
density of the immense unknown.
From behind, my hotel’s verandah
tries to keep looking at us through green
trees and leaves; at last utterly fails.
We come to the ancient cedar
with two owls, presently sleeping.
A rodent comes out to try to salvage
the foods, it has left hearing steps.
Soon the owls will rise. Then it will be
same ‘hide and seek’ before the rodent
is eaten. We are there. Waiting
for a predator as entertainment.
=© 2009 - All Rights Reserved Kushal Poddar
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