The Little Prince

My take on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's master piece

I was from the nature of light and transparency
I got a glimpse of earth
her colours bewitched me
and my fascination got seduced,
my heeding got trapped!

I saw blue oceans
I saw mountain ranges
I saw gardens
I saw butterflies
I saw death and life
in their opposite wings
wavering and dancing
to the music of existence,
to the urge of flying

So I ascended down.
Then I saw jagged rocks, I saw torn, I saw fangs "burning bright"*
I saw ups and down
snakes and ladders,
the dices of life,
I saw horrendous waves.

I saw
beauty
is short-lived.

I missed my home.
I saw the increment of tears,
the increment of separation, the increment of hues in my woes!

I have become trees
excavating to lights
coming so humbly short every time
though never ceasing to rise again.

I became.
leaves
-even I could not excavate,
I hoisted the sails of my hankers
I made love to the light- to the wind
to the freedom even though my feet was chained
in my excavating roots.

Light nested in my multitudes
I exposed myself to blusters and pains
I wormed, -like all the creatures of sand -
though towards the light,
like a seed, mining through stones
I interpret the light
to the tongues of green
in the spectrum of my splendour in water
glacier, in crystal clarity.
turning to splendour
to colours, palates, and fragrances,
in flower gardens, in orchards!
I imitated sunshine
in every blossom of citrus gardens.

I bridged in rainbow from butterflies to skies
from my wings to the flowers
I spat out, I became volcanos, I melted repeatedly
in every bloom, every bruise of beauty
I burned to the end of my exhuming arms
in every branch of gardens,
dividing to the other arms,
begging, pleading for the gold coins of shine
begging forgiveness for my departure

I burned in every wing of moths
to return to my motherland:
fire!!
to go back
to become whole again.

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*) Tiger tiger burning bright by WILLIAM BLAKE
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work in progress