Flora

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The Root looked up and said, ‘We are going to have a child’

Sparks of happiness flew by, as the Trunk smiled

His heart was filled with joy, but his mind bore thoughts dour

The Trunk prayed in silence, ‘Good heavens, let it be a leaf; not a flower’

For, the leaves give us food and stay with us forever

The flowers on the other hand, have their own endeavor

They are fragile and often fall prey to the game of fate

They end up either in a temple or decorating a woman’s plait

One fine day, a greedy merchant decided to have the big tree cut

He hired a Lumberjack, hoping the logs would fetch him riches in glut

As the Lumberjack sharpened his axe, the Trunk was terrified by the blare

The merchant, on the other hand, was mesmerized by a flower, rarest of the rare

The merchant took the flower and placed it in his little princess’s hand

His princess’s laughter gave him more happiness than he had ever planned

He had decided that the tree shall live so long as it had flowers to supply

Since its flowers gave him something that no money could buy

Later that day, Lumberjack’s wife smiled, ‘We are going to have a baby’

Lumberjack gleamed, ‘This is the happiest day of my life, maybe’

That night, a dark thought corrupted his mind and took his happiness for a swirl

Next day he prayed in silence, ‘Good heavens, let it be a boy; not a girl’

An art, by
Shashank