THE APPLE EFFECT             

              When we change the way we look at things…

          the thing we look at change, ….. Wayne Dyer

 

Apple, the red colored fruit enjoys, the pride of place ever  in revelation,

Mankind reveals its  effect as this fruit of thought is in its  revolution,

Its name also carries many facts, mostly  known and more unknown,

Golden one unfolds the myths  of the Trojan war, the history hath seen.

 

This Forbidden Apple tempting Adam and Eve, for a momentary façade.

The birth of the mankind from this set of the fabled fruit, alive till date,

Many a saying in galore to praise the apple, truly in our daily converse,

An apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,  this compliments the childcare.

 

Apple a day, keeps the doctor away, Oh! speaks volumes of its goodness,

Apple of the eye, this upholds the exalted cynosure of one’s greatness.

Apple and Oranges, this compares, weighing the merits of performance,

The Tenth apple effect, oft speaks about the saturation and endurance

 

The ongoing pandemic, an eye opener to our many unhealthy practices

Untouchability, was a crime enforced before six decades, the law states,

Now the distancing even our neighbor, or a meet is too enforced  by law,

The new born inhaled the first air, as everyone was applauding the show!

 

Everyone afraid to breathe the same air, fair and unpolluted, now in fear,

Never covered our faces before, to  reveal our expressions, true and fair

Mask, the rule of the day to filter a fresh air safely, an irony or an artifact.

This burning fear of the spread and fatality, rules our crippled mindset.

What connects apple and corona, wondering the veracity of this verse!

Just heard the tenth apple effect, as oft my mind sits upon in perverse,

The folklore reminds us the hunter in search of hunting a group of deer,

Spending sleepless nights, he was in hunger, none came in view either.

 

An apple tree on view, his joy knew no bounds, the first one was sweet,

Hunger forced him to have more, one by one, lust for the fruit in retreat, 

Very same fruit that quelled his hunger, now became discarded forever.

As he tasted the tenth one, he threw it  with impunity without a fervor

            

This effect is the tenth apple effect, giving us a message to observe in life

Air was at our mercy to inhale for a life, now we pay to inhale air for a life,

When we change the way we look at things, the thing we look at, change,

Nature had given us a chance to enjoy , we ignored to enjoy the chance.