Overlooked Beauty

Overlooked beauty At the backyard of my colony's lane Crumbles an old banyan tree slowly on verge of getting waned Not worthy of a second glance An overlooked beauty as in forgotten time's trance Pulchritude ignored by almost every passer-by Sole witness of ever changing world since ages below heavenly skies Must have given shade to countless travellers in scorching summers Birds slept safe beneath it's glossy leaves in nights of frigid winters Still shelter for woodpeckers drumming on it's stiff boughs Wind passes whistling through it's strewn parched branches on an unending drowse Last razors of golden sunlight fall on it before melting at distant hillocks An illusion of spectre forms as aerial roots sway giving fear shocks Woody trunks hiding in themselves tranquil million stories An overlooked beauty with fading structure demonstrating old glories 14/11/2018