Special Edition: Snigdha Agrawal

Snigdha Agrawal

Premonition

Sooraj refused to wake and rise
Distinctly perturbed, yielding to Baadal
which seized the sky,
pulling over its face, a blackened veil.

Hawa had long been choked to death,
while Jheel stood frozen like a pantomime
Silent predictors of an impending disaster
That none had foreseen.

Was this, then, the end of Kalyug as foretold?
Or was it the Ides of March
A harbinger of doom and misfortune
Much like the day that sealed
the fate of Julius Caesar?

A family of pelicans;
A mother and her chicks
Sensed the treachery of the elements.
It was no longer safe to dive
Into a lake poisoned with death
Where lifeless fish floated
Their glassy eyes staring into nothingness
A silent mockery of a world
that once called itself civilized

A world now rogue, unravelling fast,
marching towards self-destruction
the price of ignoring nature’s warnings

 

Sooraj – sun; Badaal – clouds;

Hawa – wind; Jheel – lake;

 

Kalyug - Kalyug, or Kali Yuga, is the fourth and final age in the Hindu world cycle, i.e., the dark age.  Kali Yuga comes from the Sanskrit words, kali and yuga. Kali means "ace" on a die, and yuga means "yoke" or "age of the world". (source internet)

Ides of March – a day in the ancient Roman calendar that falls on March 15

and is associated with misfortune and doom. (source internet).

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Setu, March 2025