A DIRGE

(APRIL-27)

                                                              courtesy WWF

Where each atom meditates

Silence reigns supreme

There’s our* home

In the Himalayas

Where the leaf deer** springs

And a 100 million year gecko*** ticks

There’s our home

In the Himalayas

Where I become one with the leaves

And fly in the moist air to my heart’s content

There’s our home

In the Himalayas

But lately we feel the atoms quaking

As your piercing eyes have found us out

Will our Paradise be lost?

But WE were not disobedient

*Flying frogs discovered in 2008 in the Eastern Himalayas, (a biological treasure trove now threatened by climate change)

**One of the world’s oldest and smallest deer species (Muntiacus Putaoensis)

***a newly discovered reptile

Courtesy: WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature)

Posted for Margaret’s prompt Play it Again, Toads #4

I used Archive #1     Transforming Frog Day!!

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