The Promise in the forest

 With the fire on jade, covered by the green papers,

had them all burnt.

Were wandering, all the small hearts of the lush,

knowing a little, next to none.

Screeches, trumpets, grunts, and hisses.

For they, must have searched the place of God.

‘Oh my friend, I ask for your help.’

‘Oh my dear human, I ask for your gaze.’

Not a man, they saw through their eyes,

Atlas, silently touched the dust,

a place of ‘safe’ they now reside.

Mother! Mother! ‘I must go,’ she said.

The girl who ran down,

the sounds of dry leaves,

not subtle, with a pressing foot.

She carries and holds them,

one moved and the other didn’t,

‘Oh dear friend, now you came.’

‘Oh dear human, I shall have laughed and played with you,

but it is late, to have eased my pain.

‘No, please don’t die.’ she said while it rained.

‘It is alright; just promise to save the others until this world ends.’

- Debesh Kar