Mumbai Fire Brigade

(Pic:ScoopWhoop)

The terns, the parrots and the crows

All fly nest-ward- except one crow

Upended, from a branch dangling,

Its feet entangled in kite-string;

 

A fire-engine! Its bells are heard-

Called to rescue the hapless bird-

A man points out the right branch then,

And the Mumbai Fire Brigade’s men

 

Raise their ladder up to the bird,

A Fireman’s up without a word;

They leave as swiftly as they came-

(they save birds as well as douse flames) –

 

As the loosed crow flies away free,

A cheer is heard around the tree –

“All hail the Mumbai Fire Brigade!

They’re stuff of which legends are made”

©Krishnamurti Ganesh