Making sense

In a world driven by sense & sensibilities

where speed and accuracy count

to the last nanosecond,

it struck me

that a bird might in fact

have more civic sense than people,

when I noticed at the railway station,

waiting for my morning train,

a crow pick up from the tracks

a discarded, crisp, paper cup

in the hopes of a quick breakfast,

and sitting on the bridge

realizing that there was little hope of his free coffee,

swiftly flew back

and deposited it where it had been found,

while the office goer on the next platform 

dredged his cup

and threw it on the nearest track,

as the train approached.

(Photo : Jain Cyriac Babu)