NAPOWRIMO 21 prompt 5 Reena Prasad pic
A moment a sculpture for an extinct race
Of children who read from books at a leisurely pace
The drone hovered overhead soundless like a silhouette
The tourist guide with yellow earplugs
His mouth trapped in a weird looking slug
Droned on about the sight below
His charges, curious little kids to show
“The sights you see are of an ancient city,
We’ve made life size models of it all so you can see
How people long long ago used to live
The grey area you see was called a road or a street
On which everyone would travel just look
They travelled in vehicles that moved on wheels
Small and big and some low some high with wheels two or four
Or even eight ten or sixteen”
A gasp of wonder thundered through the drone
“You mean to say people travelled on the ground? “
“Yes isn’t it amusing, they’d be crawling all day long
And there on the side is a market place
A ‘Mall’ they called it those days
And right below is a monument most precious
Dedicated by this museum to the extraordinary race
A replica of ‘learning’ as it was for millenniums
People you see read from books or parchments
Words written or printed and gleaned by the eyes
They began the learning at a very young age
And those who mastered learning mastered the globe
This then is the life size model built for visitors you see
Of the civilisation then as it used to be”
His charges little children of another future
Clicked their tongues, virtually, at the virtual speaker
And wondered how it could possibly be
To live in that pre-historic fantasy
Satbir Chadha-06-05-2021
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