Crowing Crow!

Well, it has been really a long time since I sat back in a relaxed manner and listened to the sounds of the surrounding…!

Don’t know when was the last time it happened…must be when I was going to school and those lazy sunday afternoons when you don’t have much to do after a long and delicious lunch of your mom’s….you feel that the television is boring, the songs played on the radio is boring, your walk man is too much of a pain….and then you just sit or lie on the bed that is at few inches away from the window with the curtains playing a shadowy show on the walls and the breeze from the neem tree, is even and the sunlight hitting you hard….you just wish why the school does not work on sundays too……………..!

If this wasn’t enough you just try to think of something nice and doze off into dreams when this crow do not know from where it just appears at the tree and starts singing a lullaby for you….!

You can hear its distinct crowing and adding to this you hear a distant crowing….that is so distinctly very haunting.

Yes, the crowing of the crow is really painful and your heart stirs each time it crows…!

Have you heard those distant crowing of the crow…?

I heard it today again…I heard it very close to my ears but it was somewhere on a tree further from my window and the blocks….

I was reminded of these lazy afternoons…on a summer holiday is a distant village where the sunlight is so much that you can’t play in the sun with your friends and your grand mom and grand dad calling you indoors, you lie on the mat looking at the ceiling and listening to the mythological tales, tales about godliness and devils…and how the gods fought over the evil…and how you should always be doing good deeds to keep the momentum going and how god punishes people who do the evil…!!!

The crows being the incarnation of our ancestors…they bring us the news from the other world…and all we do is shoo it away…and wait for it devour the food we offer it on every thought of an ancestor….!

I am reminded of the lazy summer afternoons and the sun seeping in all its light on to the grounds…whenever it crows!!