Runways and Flights of the Mind

My blogger friend Magiceye, went on a road trip to the northwest region some months ago. This a great photo he clicked, of the birds in action, in the friendly skies  of Jaisalmer, in Rajasthan, amidst the traditional desert architecture, with a cell phone tower, sticking out, totally out of place.

Kind of got me thinking about the Skies of over our metro cities , which are crowded with man-made flying "birds", and how the ATC folks restrict the skies, when some Big Birds are scheduled to fly in. 

The Big Old Traffic Controller

in the Skies,

with a thousand eyes

on hundreds of flights,

some soaring,

some landing,

some vertically taking off,

some flying in pairs

and formations,

never ever discriminates.

Living

or non-living kites,

VIP birds,

proletarian crows,

migratory guests,

balloons and blimps

puffed

in importance

pervading the space.

There are

places

on life's runways

for all

at all times,

even during

visits of

hefty clouds

sometimes dark and loaded.....

And we

close our skies

and our minds

and our eyes

and restrict flights

when

some Big Clo(u)ds are anticipated.

We never learn, do we ?

Sigh...