Animals / Abu Karim

Snakes are beautiful to look at if you

watch them on Animal Planet or

National Geographic Channel.

If once you are to accept a bite of

these very beautiful snakes,

you will be no more to describe

their beauty. It is safe not to go

to the vicinity of the animals

that bite or break the neck.

Electricity dances on the hoods of snakes,

but the ordinary jumping of squirrels

or the walking down of flocks of sheep

across the slopes of hills is much better.

Weaver-birds weave nests collecting

bits of dry hay and grass, and they copulate

near their nests. Let  us   play the game of youth

like the weaver-birds. We can do so like sparrows

frequently within as short times as we like.

Snakes and tigers always roam around us;

they are reactionary in nature.

The whole world may be destroyed with

their attacks.

15 August 2012

[ Translated by Dulal Al Mansur ]