Ishita Das’s poem and art: A sloth complains


So I appear to sleep all day

Only a Harpy can make me sway.

I like the view from top

Why’d  I ever want it to stop?


I find the tree I like best

Adventures need not always be a test

I eat its leaves and make some crap

Fertilize its roots, alert against mishap! 


If humans had an iota of sense

They’d see I’m zen, so rarely tense

But they projected their own shame

Gave me a misnomer name!


No harness, no safety net

I make it look easy, no sweat.. 

You try hanging all day long

I am not lazy, I am strong.


Ishita Das is a poet

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