O
you shaggy-headed banyan tree standing on the bank of the pond,
have you forgotten
the little child,
like the birds that have nested in your branches and left
you?
Do you not remember
how he sat at the window
and wondered at the tangle of your roots that plunged
underground?
The
women would come to fill their jars in the pond,
and your huge black shadow
would wriggle
on the water like sleep struggling to wake up.
Sunlight
danced on the ripple like
restless tiny shuttles weaving golden tapestry.
Two
ducks swam by the woody margin above their shadows,
and the child would sit
still and think.
He
longed to be the wind and blow through your rustling branches,
to be your shadow
and legthen with the day on the water,
to be a bird and perch on your topmost
twig,
andto float like those ducks among the weeds and shadows.
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