This human life of ours is unique –
We like to fed dogs tied with chain
or to keep birds in a steel cage or colorful fishes in an aquarium.
We do these things at the whim of our own minds, it feels good…
On the one hand, our life is confined to the aquarium.
Albeit we have no chains around our necks, no steel cages outside,
and the glass is missing too but there is something.
We can’t go beyond that, even if we want to
like those colorful fishes, our lives are also easeful and felicitous.
Life is full of internet, reverie, and genius.
Ignoring superstitious, keeping science as a witness,
and with God’s blessing, this daily life is going on.
The outside green trees, brown deserts, deep oceans, snow-capped mountains,
and the busy life, being surrounded by this world.
And the moving cloudy skies above are keeping an eye on us.
You may say, this is our trivial life,
no one cares about each other and that concealed globe outside…
This is our life, that is the Aquarium.

~ Trijit Mukherjee

Kolkata, India