You Die; I Die - Love Poems - Part 7 by Nikhil Parekh - HTML preview

 21. WHERE THERE IS LOVE 

Where there is bountiful grass; sprawling meadows of leafy foliage,

There roam about rustic cattle and goat; painstakingly chewing the cud; relishing the appetizing meal.

Where there is superfluous water; rambunctious streams of crystal liquid,

There reside sweet and succulent fish; bathing incessantly in the splashing currents; procreating several of their kind.

Where there is a nest of enmeshed twigs; fortified with slender sticks of

intricate wood and thorn,

There lives the protuberant sac bird; which pacifies its gluttony devouring

insects; lays eggs diligently with the passing seasons.

Where there is fetid sewage floating in gutter water; a conglomerate of

dilapidated debris loosely strewn about,

There lives the disdainful cockroach; spreading a host of deadly infection and

disease.

Where there is the colossal mountain with jagged slopes; a battalion of

deciduous trees projecting rampantly in tandem,

There lives the grizzly bear which dexterously glides through darkened

tunnels; along with tones of silver snow.

Where there is slippery sand on the beach; blended with multiple cocoons of

hollow space,

There lives the gray bodied venomous crab; flexing its noxious tentacles

intermittently; to sting innocuous flesh.

Where there is a jugglery of boiled sweets lying orphan on the floor; with a

tantalizing aroma wafting in the air,

There lives the red ant in infinite scores; hungrily crunching its meal;

pulverizing it to finely chiseled soft powder.

Where there is the honey combed hive sighted at unprecedented heights from the

ground; adhering compactly to the building wall,

There lives the honeybee boisterously oozing honey from its body; blending

superbly with the golden color.

Where there is overwhelming poverty; an atmosphere of bedraggled misery

compounded with heaps of tribulation,

There live nefarious hoodlums; driven by the fervent urge to steal; due to

scarcity of funds and fodder.

Where there is darkness camouflaged with pallid gloom; the ambience punctuated

with mystical myths,

There lives baseless fear; individuals who unwittingly shirk away from society.

And where there is perennial love; philanthropic attitude to embrace the

afflicted with thorough equanimity,

There lives god and there also lives life; ripening every unleashing minute;

creating humans impregnated with immortal bliss .