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The Baby Elephant

April 6, 2020 1 min read By Sushanta Paul

 
This girl here, so bashful!
Will you take a baby elephant?


Whenever it pleases, it will love you wildly,
come close, making you its own!
A baby elephant...will you take it?


- Love? But it has no direction!
- Then bind it with affection?
- Affection? That's just illusion!
- Oh I see! Then keep it with care?
- Care? Am I the Creator?
- Then keep it with tenderness?
- So cheap and easy?


Then what's the way to find peace?
Tell me, who will untie the baby elephant's rope!
It will stay yours...on this pretext!
What will you think about then?

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