The Parable of 2020
Nature is not a bouquet of flowers
Left to wilt and die
In a glass vase.
Life is not a banknote
We give to a grocery store
And expect the change back.
Twenty-twenty is not an itch
To be wished away
With a scratch.
It is not a secret
We will take
To our graves.
We stand
Exposed
By an infinitesimal microbe.
By life
That has handed over
A small change of our transgressions.
By nature
That is a force
A fragrance we can’t trap.
By twenty-twenty
That is not a year
But a parable.
Will we see the moral of the story?
Wishing us all an enlightening 2021!
Arefa & Aditya
(Arefa Tehsin is a celebrated author and naturalist. Aditya is a photographer. They stay in Srilanka)
Click on the link below to see a video interview of Arefa Tehsin in New Delhi
https://youtu.be/H3FCN3fC0yg
