Every time I gather you in my palms, your warm, moist, gentle touch and fresh, earthy, humid fragrance seeps into me, a soothing sensation of immense contentment. Yes, I have an undeniably intense and compelling connect with you. For all that and more, dear earth, allow me yet one more indulgence that when it is time for me to go, be it on a bed of fragrant earth and loamy copper leaves encircled by a serene, dense thicket of green foliage; and then I will close my eyes one last time, at ease with my destiny fulfilled and at peace with the world…
– Narendra Nayak © 2016
