As a man, I tried to hide my life,
I put on a mask, fake smiles,
Often I glanced into the mobile,
Trying to find something worthwhile
In my loneliest of times,
I got rejected by every friend,
Everyone unknowingly behest me to cry,
Everyone, unknowingly, wanted my end
But those days are not many,
As I relish in the days,
I go back to the memories
The rewind button I play
I remember when I was small,
I caught jugnoos in a glass jar,
Their soothing green light was my fall,
I fell in love with my jugnoo yaar (friend)
When I was 13 I saw some pigs,
Running away into the wild grass,
They bathed in dirt, ate country figs,
I always gave them a quiet pass
I also heard jackals in the night,
As I tried to sleep in the darkness,
I heard them growl in delight,
Or maybe it was sadness …
The only thing I wanted to do,
Was somehow speak to them,
I wanted to make a dance crew,
Of jackals, sheeps and boar men
I didn’t understand what they spoke,
But I tried talking in their ways,
When I see a dog I make sure,
To repeatedly tap his forehead
The dogs tail wags like a broom,
Trying to free itself from the back,
There was always enough room,
For a street dog in need of a pat
Once I sat on a bench,
Under the shade of a banyan tree,
A squirrel arrived with hope and friends,
She was the only one coming near me
I picked up a piece of food, put it on my fingers,
I stared at that little mouse,
She came close, I grew afraid as she lingered,
I threw everything, peaced out
She took the food away soon,
But was furious when she re-arrived,
I think she was not in the mood,
She tried to bite my finger in disguise
All these creatures are evidence,
That nature is a lovely beauty,
I don’t even need to make sense,
To make relishing in nature my duty
When I fell in love with nature,
I found myself living in the best of times,
The squirrels, the snakes, the bears, the sunsets,
Everything natural became mine
The day I stepped into the wild,
Was the day I also lost myself,
Because I became one with nature,
And it became one with me.