The Colorless Mushroom

Mushki, the mushroom had lost her smile,
“Why am I not colourful”, she wondered all the while
She was always so very sad,
Wondering, “Why do I have this grey colour so bad?”

Honey, the bee was flying around
Over the flowers with a buzzing sound
Seeing so many beautiful colours on the flowers and the bee
“Sob Sob”, started weeping Mushki

Just then Missy the ladybird started crawling over a stem
With a red and black body she looked like a precious gem
Mushki started to weep louder now
Wishing she could be colourful like Missy somehow

Bubbly the butterfly with rainbow coloured wings
Moved from one flower to the other for nectar drinking
Mushki wished she had at least one rainbow colour on her
“Oh!”, she moaned, “What have I done wrong, why do I have to suffer?”

And then like her, the sky shed tears, it began to rain,
And she saw Rangeela, the peacock dance again and again
He had the most colourful wings Mushki had ever seen,
And Mushki become the saddest she had ever been

Suddenly Honey, Missy, Bubbly and Rangeela surrounded Mushki
Mushki was surprised; she widened her tear filled eyes slightly
“Oh My! The rain drops look so beautiful on your grey body", they said
“You give us your colour, take ours instead!”

Mushki couldn’t believe what she heard
She looked at herself and indeed their praise she deserved
Slowly her face broke into a smile, she forgot her pain,
And never ever was she sad again

-Shweta Ravindran