Offspring Poem by Bireswar Halder

An ordinary flower - deaf and dumb - grows silently
With indifference of one and all around its lonely growth
It desires to live like others with a sweet fragrance
Bur every flower is not with any fragrance. Some are natural.

The flower roams restlessly here and there on its own
It senses its natural growth slowly when starts blossoming
And enjoys dancing like a butterfly in the open air
It dreams for a beautiful song with shower of rains.

When the flower is about to fully blossom with its petals
A few insects suck its honey and bite all petals forcefully
The innocent flower can't resist the sucking insects
And its chastity gives in, petals fall off one by one.

The helpless flower neither tells them nor finds helps from kins
It rolls down on the road being seriously traumatized
What a tremendous pain and unbearable strain
Now it becomes untouchable for the devotees.

The fate of unfortunate flower becomes more miserable
With a new bud it conceives which will be an offspring
Only shelter open for them is a home that's not safe
Justice is only an imagination as law is blind-folded.