The Man in the Desert

    

A man in the city

Thought people’s cupidity.

He thought to burke it.

He swore, he went away

With the hell of dependency.

He walked the upward slope

Until the woods nearby.

Rested under trees for a while.

But animals, some with their pile

Went howling unworried.

And birds in their style

Went flying unhindered.

He thought the woods unsafe

He thought to burke it.

He swore , he went away

With the hell of. dependency.

He walked the onward slope

Until the deserts beyond

To await the pleasure of blazing sun.

But alas! To know him abandoned

As no man in his age

Would like to change a page.

He went back to the city

When reality dawned

That no man in human

Would prefer a lone ring.

As in the city, the throng

In the woods, our nature

In the desert, the sand

Are lonely paths unheeded.

Preetha Nair

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