THORNS AND FLOWERS

We are a group of thorny plants

bearing a variety of flowers.

We, the flowers and thorns

are the legacy left behind

by our predecessors,

since times beyond remembrance.

Upon watching the thorny

plants with variety of blooms

I often ponder over the

lives of us, the human kind.

‘Life, is not a bed of roses’ – it is often said.

True……

Still I wonder, in course of time

‘whether a day would arrive,

with thornless plants

appear on earth with

different flowers like ornaments

providing a variety entertainment

but it is a foregone conclusion that

we,the mankind will have to

tread the path spread by

the agony and delight

viz thorns and flowers

till the very end of the world

if at all such an end is inevitable…….