Hide and Seek With Life

Two realities. = “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