Soaring Ambitions :-)

A very "earthy" butterfly on a reconnaisance mission, away from its normal haunts amidst gardens and flowers. Like humans, they too look to new horizons and frontiers.

A wonderful capture on a trip to Munnar, by blogger friend Sandhya from Chennai. Posted by her , as part of the Wordless Wednesday series. 

But sometimes,  a thousand miles away, the words happen ....:-))

(first photo by Sandhya, second by her son )
They taught us
in Butterfly school
to daintily flit
amidst the green
and the flowers,
imbibing
the nectars
and flavors of Life.

Some of us went
for higher studies,
winging our way
across walls and tiles,
braving difficult winds.

I have great designs,
(in life, that is) :-)
and as anyone
in power will tell you,
Life is pretty
tough,
drab,
grey,
and lonely
at the top.

I don't have
the garden colors
and the green
around me,
but what the heck,
the Sky's the Limit now !

Loaded Minds

Nothing depicts Mumbai better, than a photograph of ongoing construction, posted by Blogger friend Magiceye, as part of his Mumbai Daily : Monochrome Mania series posts.

The irony is, that in the big hurry to build homes , we continue to create more homeless, comprising those, who are brought in from the far away villages, to labour at these construction sites....and thereby hangs a bag of worries, hopes, and fears,  on these ambitious spikes, that continue to aim higher, and higher, and higher ....


(photo by Deepak Amembal Magiceye)

Some legends
in a race,
minds spiked with
desperate ambition
to get
a
bigger,
higher,
taller,
richer
abode,
to look down
in blind victory
on others
scrounging below.

And the homeless,
construction laborer,
with a roof
in the village back home,
slogs in the city,
carrying his
fears,
ambitions,
hunger,
and worries,
stuffed in a bag ,
hung open to the elements
on the 25th floor
where he works,
hoping
Someone Up There
in the sky
looks out for him....