Water Hyacinths

‘Didn't I tell you, the corporation is reviving the plan to fill the pond and build a shopping complex there,’ mother’s voice was desperate. The proposal has been under consideration since many years. Now, it was just a revival…yet, I felt the same pain that I had when it was announced years before…

The banyan tree and the temple, the small hill, the valley and the pond have been a cherished part of my childhood and youth….a landscape that would lend our city-life the peace and splendour of countryside. Of all, the pond offered the most beautiful scene with water hyacinths growing wild with its violet blooms. Over the past years water lettuce has taken over hyacinths…the splendour of the violet pond is just a memory…yet, mind can’t seem to accept the idea of a shopping complex there…

….thinking back, I have often felt that landscape was the architect of my making…a mind full of violet dreams….And, violet dreams signify sadness and inner grievance, psycho-analysts say.

painting my dreams violet,
turning me sad for no reason-
water hyacinths

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http://aquaplant.tamu.edu/database/floating_plants/water_hyacinth.htm