A pair of ducks
was all an attraction,
into my campus, they walked
silently, without any invitation.

A swarm of children
all amazed, light on their feet,
hovered around the guests,
in a hope, to touch and meet.

Steadily, the ducks strolled around,
in a manner befitting a queen,
silently, they left the campus,
never to be seen.

An impulse within me rose,
to travel with the creatures,
to the heaven from where they came
so pious and bountiful
like a mother’s lap,
safe from a hateful world.