Sunday, March 04, 2007

Love a tree....

The following pic is of a gift which my friend gave when she visited Pune...yeah!!It's only a dried leaf with some scribbles on it....... She wrote these while she was sitting in front of a supermarket ..... The words which were penned on it are posted below the pic....



IF LEAVES WERE A TREE’S THOUGHTS, HAVE YOU WONDERED WHAT A MIGHTY THINKER A TREE MUST BE?
I WAS WALKING DOWN THE STREETS OF PUNE WHEN THROUGH THE DUST AND GRIME OF THE CITY CAME A FLASH OF RED-A LIITLE SPOT OF VERMILLION FLUTTERING AND SETTLING DOWN ON A DUSTY EARTH.
DOES A TREE WEEP? WOULD LEAVES BE THE TEARS OF A TREE? DOES A TREE EVER MOURN THE LOSS OF A TEAR, THE LOSS OF A TREE?
DOES A TREE FEEL TICKLED EACH TIME A WORM CRAWLS ALL OVER IT? OR JUST TICKLED BY A STRAY THOUGHT?
CAN YOU SEE A TREE GIGGLING IN ITS LEAVES?
HAVE YOU RUFFLED A TREE’S MANE?
HUG A TREE….

My friend is neither an environmentalist nor a social activist..she is neither a Medha Patkar nor a Maneka Gandhi...she is just one among us.... one who cares!!! Do you care????