At Last

It has been 5 months by then, since I have started my journey towards the unexpected end. Death is always the unexpected end in everyone’s life. It was a rainy morning. So, my puny eyelids didn’t take much blinking to adjust my eyes to the daylight. My brother was fast asleep near me. I got up, flapped my wings and rubbed my small black eyes with them. I saw mother flying towards us at a distance. Actually, hunger woke me up. So, I hurriedly walked towards the edge of the nest giving her less time to reach me. My wings weren’t fully developed to carry my body in the air. I didn’t screech like my brother, whenever I see her. Instead voices come out of my vocals, “Squawk. Squawk.” instead of parrot’s screeching. I could feel myself peculiar at that time and hadn’t tried that yet again. Grumbling sound in my stomach brought my senses back and my tiny brain started processing and finally made my reddish beak to open up.

I flapped my wings harder as though taking off to flight at the next moment. But, something unusual happened. My small body felt quite weightless all of a sudden. Even though, if it might be due my wings I should only have flown up. Instead my sleeping brother was at my level. I never knew that parrots could sleep fly! Within a short time, a huge face with big black eyes came at sight. Mother was already pricking a fleshy thing on the right side of the huge face. As soon as the huge face inclined to one side, mother was no longer near that face. Some woody thing has hit her and she was gone. Unconsciousness dragged me by then.

I was awoken by a drop of water from somewhere above. It was raining. My brother has already gotten up and has fell in some pool of water. I walked towards him with a small stick in my beak and made him grab it. He made use of the stick and with one hop landed near me. I found myself dumbstruck suddenly. I didn’t know what that sight really meant. It was my beautiful Lorikeet mother lying there without any sign of motion. In my 5months of journey, I have never found mother resting for more than a while. My sibling hopped near her and pecked her head but, in vain. She didn’t move. A while before I was hungry and saw mother coming towards her baby Lorikeets to feed them. But now, some other feelings had control of me. Loneliness, fear and depression were among them. My fully matured mother had reached her unexpected end without even knowing about it before. In that case, what might be our two small Lorikeet’s situation?

The only solution is STRUGGLE. The Survival of the fittest.

By then, it has been a year since the start of my journey. I had been doing something that no small Lorikeet might have ever done. I was nursing my sibling. I have taken the place of my mother. He seemed to need extra care and so I provided him with good supply of food and shelter. The extra care was due to his flightlessness. He stayed at home, while I wandered from place to place in search of food. I started learning a lot from the outside world that seemed to contain sources of good and evil thoughts. I came to know that the humans were the dominant among anything else. A statement from a movie expressed this unstableness very well.

“In one Yuga, good and bad people seemed to be separated from each other. In the next Yuga, good people were among the bad ones and the bad people were among the good ones. The next succeeding Yuga contained a big mixture of good and bad people. The ongoing Yuga has good side in every bad one and bad side among every good one.”

I used to sit at places where two humans met secretly and heard their conversation. Once, a guy who was responsible for the welfare of other people around the town and another guy who was empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property and limit civil disorder, where having a small discussion on how to move an evil person, who has caused much disorders in the country, from custody. Their final idea was making fool of the people just by announcing them that he has somehow fled from the strong hands of them. ‘Why can’t this meeting be of some good concern?’ I thought and flew away. I came up with different stories and was confused of how people were so illiterate from the happenings among them.

But a small conversation of a couple made me understand that the people were aware of the happenings and seemed to be unhelpful. The lady was comforting the man saying that everything would be alright soon. The man seemed to have got a lot of criticism because of his truthfulness.

I had a small brain that helped me with the processing of the things that happened around me. I didn’t know that I was the only one who could understand the humans. I learned a lot from them. But corruption was not only among the humans but also has spread to other children of Mother Nature (probably the animals and birds).

I was in the shooting range hearing conversations recently. Birds didn’t like the banging sounds so they were usually allergic of these places. But I went there which brought me to the unexpected end. I took off after hearing a conversation when I was shot. Pain and death was taking control of me by then. Mother Earth was pulling me towards her. I came to know that the humans also did things for pleasure, just like shooting a puny Rainbow Lorikeet. The last sight of my life made me understand what life was.

My beautiful ladylove was in a branch with my brother who has acted like a flightless bird. They both treated me as a foolish slave. My blood relation and my partner have cheated me. Corruption has crossed its limit. At last, when I was at my unexpected end I understood the world around me.

‘Mother I will be with you soon. I can’t believe anyone except you’ I said to myself and closed my eyes having a vision of me sitting near my true love, my Mother. At last, the highly literate bird among the others has reached the unexpected end, DEATH.