Poetry | Issue 1 (April 2023)
Farewell
Ankur Jyoti Saikia
A young man with a bright smile landed in a forest. Amidst all those
crooked trees thriving on ego, he survived with a drooping crown
and roots folded in respect. He made a home of an inn, friend of a
bartender, brothers of strangers, smileys of passers-by. Earlier he
waved leaves when the eagle pecked at his bark. Later that eagle
took him as a perch, as a breastplate, as a crown jewel. It’s his day
to bid us farewell, to turn a city into ruins. He will be shipped to a more
fertile soil, bestowed a chance to branch profusely. Someday, he might
pay a visit—but the inn will no more be a home, nor the bartender.
Ankur Jyoti Saikia (he/ him) is a forestry researcher based in India who believes in his self-coined maxim 'scribble, submit, repeat'.
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