A
Festive Morning
The woods are echoing with
a delight naked eyes can’t see
The
leaves are smiling though without reason
And on this festive morning, the birds are free
No coming back again in the evening
No home, no bounds
No friends, only companions
Yes, this way serener it sounds
This fragrance soothes me
Yes, the one of the wet soil
The wise owl still sleeping
After burning the midnight oil
The rising orange sun
No different from the delightful orange leaves
The wind singing a lullaby in my ears
Like once my mother would do
And I feel like a child again
In the lap of Mother Nature,
And I want her to sing on and on
Her voice makes me feel like home
But I don’t want to sleep
I don’t want to miss the melody
Because as I close my eyes, I dive within the
unvented
But lose on what the woods have to offer
And this landscape so mystic
I can’t help celebrating this festive morning
As the whole forest is making merry,
I don’t
want to know the myth behind it
I simply
lie down on the grasses
and the carpet of old withered leaves
Beside me is a shallow pond
with a mermaid in it staring by my side, stealing glances
yes, sometimes our eyes do meet
In this festival I find a divine shade
of what I had been craving for,
And I give myself to it
become an
inherent part of it
breathing every bit of it,
without a reason, a purpose
For a
moment the rational me
does wish to capture all of it
but then I let it flow around me,
pristine and unimpeded
A pen, a
canvas, a notepad and a camera
Urging me
to take captive all what I am relishing
But today I am too short of words,
And the canvas too small to portray
what my eyes get to see
So free, under this morning sun, I let all of
it be
But I do let myself absorb all I can
Only a fool would snap the bond with beauty.
And I leave, indeed with a heavy heart
But with a promise to come back
On a similar festive morning again
The mermaid shall shed tears in the pond
however not display any emotion
The
woods shall wait for me
although every bit of It
shall look calm, composed as ever
I had guessed it long ago,
And as I touched it this festive morning, I got
a measure of it
Well, who knows whether the promise will be
kept?
A Festive Morning
The woods are echoing with