Fragility

So many heart breaking stories all around us these Corona times. Cannot help but muse about the fragility of life and our dreams for it! Here is an ode to it......

Unto the starry night, a mother,

Once set her little afree.

A strapping young fellow, so full of life,

Of wonder, of liberty.

Oh the joy, the ecstasy,

The pleasure of being free.

Of gliding, of diving, of soaring above,

What adventure it can be!

“Oh life, Oh life, I love it” he said,

What mysteries in store for me?

What veils to be lifted yet?

What beauty beckons me!

There was a stroke of lightning,

Just a flicker of a hand.

That instant of a mocking fate,

Sneering at life, at hope, at dreams!

The world moves on, unseeing, uncaring,

But somewhere a mother mourns on,

For the death of her darling, her lovely, her pride,

The bubbly little fly.