Have You Seen Bats Sleep?

Folded like small black 
Garbage bags lumped 

With waste and the fold

Angling straight on one 

Side as if the bag held 

A long bone like a femur

If you had to glance up

To be shocked by small

Black garbage bags on

The wide tree branches

And wondered whose

Dumb idea was it to 

Decorate the trees this

Way, who had the hustle

To take this much effort

And what sort of sombre

Celebration was this and

Then have it dawn upon

You that those were not

Small black garbage bags

Those were breathing

Living phenomenon of 

Life and nature and life

And nature and if anyone

Were dumb it was you! 

-

Chandni Girija

Day 24 of 30 | 30 Poems in 30 Days | National Poetry Writing Month #napowrimo #napowrimo2022