Elephant Feet / The Elephant and The Jungle

Elephant Feet What fun it would have been To be given elephant feet As big as the world. O what fun! I'd have crushed underfoot The unjust ones, the tyrants, Just squashed them As though they were so many bugs! But is killing the solution? What would happen If they thought of me the same way? This is why There's no end to battles, No end to killing, No end to violence. I want to be a flower Like the foot of the elephant Big enough to cover the world, And I want to hold Within myself All the wounds, all the agonies. Able to bear this like the flower Even though the honey-bee And the bumble bee Drink and drain me. I want to be a flower Like an elephant foot That could cover The world itself. 10:30 AM 31 March 2000 Putli Sadak Click here for Nepalese Language Version

The Elephants and The Jungle It suits the elephant To live in the jungle. To live in a room, a house, A zoo doesn't seem right to him. In this jungle, the elephant has space to roam, A place to play, A place to move around, An open space too where he can be by himself. The jungle isn't meant to be the house of man and woman, The jungle is the elephant's home. It's not right for man and woman to grow a jungle inside; They have to build a home in their heart. The elephant has to grow a jungle in his heart: There should be in his heart Hills and mountains, Streams, rivulets and rivers. It suits the elephant To live in the jungle by itself. 12:55 PM 31 March 2000 Putli Sadak Click here for Nepalese Language Version