The Despondent Desert
The Despondent Desert
Days come, days pass
But everything on my lone sands
Remains stagnant, wide and vast
“Oh my dearest desert,”
My friend, the setting sun asked me
“What has caused you this sorrow
That I see your tears shining blazingly ?”
To him then I started telling
About my perpetual despondency
With bleak trees adorning my sands
Bearing neither fruits nor flowers, in hand
I am nothing as compared
To my lush green friends in the rainy land
Even I am so monotonous and monochrome
Exuding silent stillness wherever the eyes stretch
I am nothing as compared to my friend, the seashore
Where the mighty sea waves kiss the tranquil land
Even the Man is tired and frustrated
Of trying to grow anything on my barren land
Look at my friends, the fertile valleys
Where everything grows, so winsome and grand
I have felt so bad, my dear friend
When Man has cursed me for the scorching heat
Even the Rain God has no mercy
Hardly ever a drop of water kisses me
“Don’t cry, my dear friend
You may not be grand like the mountains
Neither green like the forests
Nor gusty like the sea waves
But you are golden sand
Where the footprints of time
Leave an indelible imprint of the Man”
“You are a home to so many creatures
Who wouldn’t have survived without you
You are an amber beauty-
And Men from all over the world come to see you”
“On a full moon night, dear desert
You see the blue heaven stretched infinite
With the star studded diamonds smiling at you
Whose beauty can be realized
only on your serene sands”
I pondered deeply on this
As my friend got vanished in my vast sands
And smiled as my tears dried
Oh what a fool I was !
Just like the Man
I was neither better nor worse
Than anyone on this heavenly earth
Just different- just a beautiful me
Like the lily and the rose
And as the night grew darker
I looked up towards the moon’s spotted face
Which shone with a resplendent light
“We shine even with our flaws
And that’s the paradox of life”