Nature as an Inspiration

by Padmini Krishnan

Change! They tell me

and install the new software

I smile and raise my thumbs

while fear screams with all

Its strength, gripping

and crippling my brain.

I try and try

but fail every time

My hands and mind

tremble at the mention

of the software

I look out to see

tiny droplets turn

into long needles only

to submerge in the leaves, the pond,

the buildings and the earth

Those droplets are not glued to

the sky or petrified

with fear mid-air

Taking strength from

the unresisting droplets

I slowly unshackle the

chains of fear and

walk up to my trainer.

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Padmini Krishnan is a Web Copywriter. Her haiku and haibun have appeared in Shamrock, The Neverending Story, A Hundred Gourds, Proletaria, Cattails, Chrysanthemum, New Wales Journal, The Heron's Nest, Contemporary Haibun Online and Haibun Today. Her Short stories for children have been published in My Light Magazine, Short Kid Stories, and Children's Stories.net. She lives in Singapore.