A Shepherd’s Home

Gayathri Achar posted under Tale-a-thlon S4: Poetry on 2024-08-14



“Don’t you wish to live in a huge mansion?

Like the ones where those nobles live?

We could live a rich and lavish life,

And do whatever we wanted to,

Instead we bring our sheep here, every day,

And watch them eat in this boring meadow,

Why are we so doomed, Oh Brother?”

“No one can be more blessed than us,

For we are free souls, sons of the earth,

This entire meadow, full of lush, green grass,

Where our young sheep eat to their heart’s content,

And with the big blue sky above our heads,

Is the best home one can ever have,

That no man-made structures can ever beat.”