Beauties ,Doubts, and little boys

My blogger friend , Bikramjit Singh Mann, posted this amazing picture of the forest area behind the Sukhna lake near Chandigarh, in the state of Punjab, in North India, as part of the Wordless Wednesdays Series.

There is an eerie stillness about this scene. The bare trees, the tangled branches and statuesque tree frames, the clear amazingly reflective water, and the sky watching it all.

While some may hasten to photograph this, it occurred to me that somewhere, someplace, there was a little boy, just itching throw a disturbing pebble into the water, and watch in glee, as the perfect images helplessly mesh into each other.


(photo by Bikramjit Singh Mann)

Bare
anorexic model types,
posing with raised limbs,
or
firm, shapely maidens,
in intense effort
to project an “S”
or
some
older maa’ms
intricately ravaged by
the passing of time,
and
inter-offspring fights,
all
freshening up
in an effort to be
what they are not,
as they look down
with the sky,
at
the fluid mirror below.

A little boy,
throwing
a small pebble of a doubt,
and
the images dissolve
beauties into beasts,
and the sky,
with real ordinary features,
has the last laugh……