Efeu
written by: Neelima Aravind
One of those pandemic things – baking, gardening
The English Ivy we brought home
now we can’t kill it, we can’t let it live
Easy to grow, a naïve gardener’s delight
Then you are cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting
One of those pandemic things – baking, gardening
Comes at trees like a friend for tea
Soon in your bedroom, kitchen, singing with your child
Now we can’t kill it, we can’t let it live
where does joy come from when things grow?
we water it, we wish it would die
One of those pandemic things – baking, gardening
We googled from the garden store – ‘Winter hardy’
How did we miss ‘invasive’, ’toxic’, ‘avoid like the plague’?
Now we can’t kill it, we can’t let it live
As we get outside for our air
We see our lovely friend everywhere – smothering trees, overtaking ruins or making them?
One of those pandemic things – baking, gardening
Now we can’t kill it, we can’t let it live
