Nature’s Euphony – Advaita Tyagi

(A butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.) 

 

I look around, 

disorientated and dazed. 

The long hours of struggle, now all seem  

worth the wait. 

 

Around me I see countless others, 

Their wings majestic in the daylight- 

An emerald green, 

A crimson red, 

A stunning cobalt with golden flecks. 

I then stretch mine, 

hoping they’re as wondrous to them 

as theirs to my eyes. 

 

Around me there is a dazzling display of nature, 

I gaze at the radiant sky, after the endless days of darkness, 

the rising sun to me as air to the dying. 

Blooms of such beauty and lacquer, 

Smoother than the finest wine. 

 

Around me there’s the gush of a waterfall to be heard,

It ties in so well with the trill of the woodpecker, 

far away in the woods, the growl of a tiger  

majestic, the soft velvet foliate dances under me 

As the howl of the wind swishes past the trees. 

 

Around me I observe the night,

slowly creeping out, 

like vines from old concrete. 

A sudden thought troubles me– 

It’s the end of the first night already. 

(And tragically I know that there aren’t many more meant for me.) 

  

Around me quiet raindrops start to fall,

Against the elusive glow of the full moon, 

the sound of my wings, cutting against the wind, 

the buzz of the bumblebee, the song of the mockingbird, 

My thoughts disappear. 

And it emerges–

Nature’s euphony laid out 

Just for me. 

– Advaita Tyagi, Delhi Public School, Noida

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