Man, Flowers & Death — A Poetic Tale
Nandini Chakrabarti
The unfairness of man is such,
that he is born to earth,
and dies to it,
he carries the burden,
of love, luck and sincerity;
yet he finds himself in a jigsaw puzzle
of mismatched circumstances;
yet he survives,
he thrives;
when he hits the rock bottom
he grows and blooms into a dandelion,
and he flies with the wind
till he finds another flower
and rests on its tender shoulder;
the tired man cries,
as he retrospects every moment of life,
nitpicking the odds,
and regretting what was not
and just when he is as vulnerable as one can be,
the flower is a corpse,
pulling the man in,
and buries him deep,
penniless, charmless, remorseful;
and the corpse flower grows wider with age,
because no one dares to find this jumbled secret.
Nandini Chakrabarti is a writer and poet. She believes strongly in the art and power of storytelling. Nandini has co-authored multiple poetry and short-story anthologies, and is currently working on her debut novel. Nandini is an empath, bearing a passion for films, communication studies, chess, understanding the complexities of being a human and creating an equal ground for children.
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