By Mereena Eappen
Fanning the gigantic ears,
wandered the cold-black tusker Arikomban--
the lonely, popular wild elephant of the South
entered the red-warm forest
--an escapade into the immense emerald entity.
Free of shouts and free of pomp now,
the tortured and broken giant shall never return to
the punitive world of the human race.
Fingerless nails and a long trunk are further
soil coated, but then again, he can sense
the transparency of woodlands.
Canopies one after the other
fantasise him and they are unlike
the human land of scorching roads.
Gone away from plastics and away from motor horns,
he may overhear simply the music of nature.
The sunbeams dance on the green grass and
Urge the chirping birds to welcome the new guest.
Many on crossing rails, many by electric fences,
and many more on hunting lost their lives,
but who upkeeps them anymore!
"Dear Arikomban, please don’t come back
to this merciless, dying artificial world,”
yelled the innocent natives of the busy world.
Mereena Eappen is a Ph.D. scholar from the English Department of St.Thomas College-Palai, India. Her poems are housed in The Alipore Post, Poet’s Choice and Madras Courier. She also does musings on life, photography and content writing.
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