... caged!

Small time you find at the most unexcepted instances in the span and things you least expected, do happen! .. ofcourse with minimal relevance with what you might have once thought of! ... From amongst the haywired mix of things, I started off early in the morning, to move away from things. But where do I go without a destination? .. Walked up the road which took me to a rick, whose destination was the railway station! .. Picked up a platform ticket, got into the station hoping to see some random happenings or at least the travelers with some destination, unlike me who had none!... The crowd, mass, tourists failed to engage this mind, and like always, unplanned, i pushed off towards the bus stop! .. Picked up a random bus. When asked where i had to go, i said "take me to the end, where you stop. I will get down there".... Trying to move away .. run away from the real.. like a coward .. whatever!

Had no idea, i would be in the same place, i had come 12 years ago!.. amongst the green trees, animals around, where theres no noise but a silence...

A well planned and furnished house was in place for these guys! .. Unlike those small porticos in large storeyed buildings there was quite a lot of open space in the front of the house. Decorated with artificial trees and ropes tied amongst them, so that these guys could perhaps perform some acrobatics when they wanted to! .. At the end of the open space was a pool filled with water which could be used for drinking and playing! ... hee hee .. this was the kingdom of two creatures, resembling us in all ways apart from our civilized form! One of them was supposed to be a female and the other !! a male of course ;)... Their day unlike ours, wasnt that hectic. Theres no need to run. As if the time had stopped and all they ever wanted was around them! .. Were they content with all they had? Or were they waiting? ... even i got no idea .. for when I saw them for the first time, both of them were engaed with each other, playing and running around .. and this lasted for a short while till one of them looked at me. The dance stopped. They sat .. they walked towards me .. and stopped. Stopped to stare, at how free I was perhaps!.. hehehe... or stopped to see if I teased them for being caged .. or could be in the hope of getting some food like the other zoo visitors! I dont know what .. but there was something in these creatures .. a voice trying hard to break free ...

Amazing it is to look at one part of the coin where stray monkeys, dogs .. all those who never become successful pets, wander all their lives in search for food to survive, however remaining free to decide. On the other, those like these chimpanzees who have the privelege to become pets and are cared for so much, who live in those palacial well planned and built houses, tend to remain in an everlasting .. everlonging .. want for freedom.... Should I ask why? or should I assimilate?

Caged were the poor chimpanzee's, like a number of other creatures at nandankanan, a few looking at me, while the rest engaged in their loneliness.. perhaps hoping to be free someday .. a day where they could return to where they belong, running in the jungles, their homeland. Perhaps caged like me dear, in your thoughts waiting to be free as you embrace me in your arms some day .. hehehe .. It could never be. Some of these creatures would live this trapped life to an end .. always seeking to be free .. and it could be the same with me .. always thinking that a day might come where you might just embrace me! that would be a time... not yet. Trapped i am in the thoughts of yours, as they wonder at my actions, questioning why i aint free.. will your wide arms free me someday? .. that remains a question though .. Or is it that i am actually free within limits ?? since owning or containing could be a mere illusion they say ... ... for every time you tend to be free you will be bound and everytime you are bound you would want to be free .... a paradox though :) .. the MAYA!