Request--By Partha Chatterjee--India

Request

Dear friend,
If you love the sea,
don't cage it in an aquarium.

You may decorate your aquarium
with some Posidonia,
some swaying guppies,
garland of bubbles.

Oyster may lie with pebbles 

But if the blue water can't jig up
and down with the rising Moon,

If the blue water
can't hear the flapping wings of
Albatross summoning a storm,

if there are no footsteps
of Eternal Time on her shore.

She will die.

If you love the sea.
Don't cage it
in an aquarium. 

Partha Chatterjee lives in India with his wife and daughter.