pinky and pinky.......

A pigeon and human story

Pinky the pigeon:

This is a story of pinky the pigeon. She was this gray beautiful slender pigeon who like her other peers spent her time flying and flying and some more flying. Yes she did eat a few tit bits and drank drops of blue water from the swimming pool. Life was just the same until the mating season came when ultimately she realized she had been empowered by nature to give birth. Accordingly she flew with a heart now filled with new hopes and dreams to find that perfect abode. And an abode did she find perfect with food and drink near a warm cozy place in a pot of the human’s house. Quickly she went about collecting a few twigs to make it more comfortable and there she sat to lay her eggs….

Pinky the girl:

Pinky returned home after a long day in college. As she waited for her mom to whip up a smacking snack she entered her balcony to soak in the view of the garden, when she heard a fluttering noise… she investigated the source of noise and to her dismay found out that a pigeon had laid an egg……she was left dumbfound she didn’t understand what to do.. her dadi would be arriving soon and there was no chance dadima would leave the pigeon peacefully. She rushed to plead her case with her mom. Mom didn’t promise anything but also she did assure pinky that she wouldn’t do anything to harm the eggs or pigeon………that night when pinky went to sleep she scolded the pigeon for selecting the most inappropriate place to lay her eggs inspite of all the odds pinky vowed to9 support her pigeon friend and wouldn’t allow her dreams be interrupted by anyone…inspite of her resolve she still had a sinking feeling of a loosing game in her heart…………

The first few days were a magical. she was all glowing with all the enthusiasm and this splurge of happiness led to her laying another egg… like all her folks she kept good care of herself by eating well drinking well and warming the eggs with all her strength and love… as days went by she became aware of the black devil-the crow eyeing her bundle of joy for his food.. she was prepared to fight her battle and what a fierce battle did she fight…

She heard the crow crowing continuously surprised she wondered what was it about whe dadi told her that crows fancy eating the eggs pinky was horrified at the thought. Daily it was a tense atmosphere in the house as she would fight for the pigeon and hence reluctantly dadi had to give in without any option left. Daily pinky would check on pigeon and see to it that nothing bothered it. and then it rained and rained due to the cyclone phyan and don’t know when the pigeon lost its battle with and she lost one of the eggs.

Disheartened pinky slept off and in the morning when she checked she found her friend sitting right there and still lingering onto the thin threads of hope. Just after an half hour when pinky checked again she was gone and so was here last hope. Before leaving she had scattered her make shift nest and left. The whole house was quite now. None knew what to say and what to do.

Perhaps it was a struggle right from the begin, perhaps it wasn’t meant to be or god knows what it was…all I know is that we can learn a lesson or two from pinky the pigeon…it was indeed a sight to watch pinky from her glowing happiness to her determination to her fear to her holding to last threads and then giving up when it dawned on her that it wasn’t working. Wonder what she must be going through now well the best answer to it might be she right here at the window flying and back with her friends.