19.12.12

The Weeping willow

i was in a dark. all around me was just nothing. i felt me buried somewhere so tightly that i was unable to move a little. i felt like shaking off whatever upon me and run away knowing the fact that it is not possible. At times i felt cold, at times wet at times some wired long thing scrolling over me..i learned patience..i wished for this stage to get pass..days after days i found changes in me and around..one fine day i felt a kind of heat striking somewhere of me and i was startled me.. i could open my eyes and what i found was my mother as tall as the sky with lovely greens of silky hair..she looks beautiful..it was different over here..birds and clouds and sepia of the rising sun..a cuckoo couple on my mothers branch singing lovely..my mom shrugged and a rain of morning dew started falling..it tasted exotic..at last for the first time i felt "tranquil at mind"..  

My legs part from a couple to thousand..it spreader around to all corns searching for water like a thirsty vampire..my legs collide with others and theirs with mine..we created a web of  strong layer underneath..i enjoyed the mild heat, the bright light and the swaying wind. i grew up to moms  and some humans said..look at that new "willow"..now i know thats what we are called a willow. My pendulous branches appeared fairly beautiful with the spring pale green leaves at the bottom..we were so happy, sang and danced all the day..some noticed most of them neglected.. i become the adobe of a small herd of bird too like my mother..they nestled up in the curves of my arms and i protected them being astiff fearing a swing will disturb them..at night i enjoyed the cloudless sky with shimmering stars like diamonds across..   

children pay under my shade..some cats and dog took me as their shelter from the burning heat..the birds perched on..the chipmunks nibbled giving me little quakes.. what ever i do i was glad because i do only good. Its raining now and it formed a creek beside we stood that carried dirt and dust in the beginning and now fresh and flowing with fallen flowers..the burble made me sink in somewhere unknown..it didn't stop but tumbled and rolled rippling all the time.. the rain strengthen us we grow higher limitless somewhere in the wast of the holy mother-earth to whom i am rooted and disperse my veins through.. on one unstopping rainy day my mother said tales about our ancestors..a time when there was just our kind on the earth..and then the human and other animals came..things gradually changed..kept changing and still changing..the breeze and the light and the night and just we..i though how good it would be to live at that time..least if we had more of us around here..

i was taller than before and i could see the high houses where humans live..lately i found a girl looking through her window to me for so long..her emotion was plain..i wonder why shes doing so.. everyday with a cup off coffee she will stood over there or on her balcony and watch my hairs swinging in the wind..she might not be knowing that i am noticing her through my thick locks..my curiousness about her thoughts grew..but i am happy there's one in a million who loves a little green..

One day we saw two humans discussing looking at my mother..at first we didnt know anything and then one among them came with an axe clutched at his hip and climbed on her and started to cut out her branches..she bleed white but the self-centered human didnt cared. he cut her until shes bald..the reason they say is her height disturb the electric lines to their house. is that a reason for making her handy capped ?  is this world just for the sake of humans? will they survive without us? when will they understand all this sane truths? my mother wept out as the pain hurt her from all sides..her beautiful thick of  greens were brushed out from the ground and put on fire..all i could do was to weep for her..i was interrupted by a loud clangor..it was not other than the extreme sin of the moving brain-less flesh that they were cutting my mom from root..my veins shrieked..the earth under my leg cracked..but all ended useless..i shouted out loud .but none listened..i yearn for her life but none cared..a cheer broke somewhere inside me..yes they may destroy me too..i stood frozen waiting for the sharp iron to fall on me but it didn't happen..i could smell my mothers blood..all they left was the memories i had with her..turning to find a blank next to me..they are manifesting  the monopoly of dominating this planet as if this was their own place, under their own control all other creatures has to fear them, sacrifice them for the good of the humans..this is wrong..this is sin..some day they will have to answer for this..suffer for the cruelty they have shown to the other beings..

the night was darker than ever..it seemed scary all around..the wind blew me swiftly..memories till last night rolled in my mind..i wept and wept until there was no tear left..each drop of tears shed bloom as a new leaf and shielded me as grown whiskers..and a day came when i could conceal in the grieving tears for my mother..and people said "look at that weeping willow, looks so gorgeous" they laughed and disappeared..but me and the ones like me kept our self living in fearing the ruthless arms of those who laughed and passed.. Life is getting impossible in this world..all we could do is to be blind dumb and deaf...

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