Earth Melodies: Satbir Chadha

Satbir Chadha
The breeze that is rattling our fragile windows

Suddenly swishes louder

Through delicate rusty leaves

As they flounder but don’t yet fall

Will it go round the world

Till it swishes through the Neem of my city

And prance around the bougainvillea hedges

There, where it may then be spring



Flocks of birds turn the sky a turbulent grey

As I lie on the soft grass at the edge of Trout Lake

A congregation like no other 

As they flap and flap in formation 

Thousands of them together

Set out and take flight on cue 

A long long journey 

Annual migration 

To warmer lands

My city too perhaps



On a seashore a group of children 

Have begun a new leisure activity

It’s the time for turtle eggs to hatch

And so the kids sit around the beach 

Alert

To tiny spouts in the soft sparkling sand

The marvel of birth of new life

As a tiny babe pops its head 

Then

Climbling out of the shell, crawls into the sea

Safe 

Guided by a universal melody

Guarded by the children who made it their purpose 

To secure each tiny life, against monsters bent on stealing turtle eggs



Ah! The symphony of earth’s delicate balance

Balance of life and death 

Death and rebirth 

Birth and growth 

New life

As the earth too rotates in rhyme with the melody of the universe
 

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