Monday, April 21, 2008

Once

The fiery red flowers dot the roadsides, announcing the onset of spring with a sudden youthfulness. Oblivious of the dust, smoke, pollution, and the scorching Sun, the gulmohars are in bloom again, driving away the drabness with a vivacious display of colors.

But, sadly, the gulmohar tree I used to walk by last year is no longer there. Don't know when it vanished. Maybe, in the process of road-widening it has been chopped off and disposed away. The place where it once stood is empty now. There is nothing to suggest that there once stood such a beautiful tree.

2 comments:

Trinath Gaduparthi said...

How roads are widened to narrow down the joys !

G Shrivastava said...

Spring? Did it come? This year it feels like we jumped from winter into summer without stopping to experience lovely spring...