Dearest Gentle World Poem by Raj Arumugam

dearest
gentle world,
loving trees
and generous open fields
and blue skies


you can sing me
a song
if you like;
and I’d sleep
sound and quiet
like a newborn


make up the lyrics
as you go along;
keep it easy
like my village-mum’s
lullaby


knit your song
with the stars and the moon
and sprinkle it
with dew and saffron


sing me about love
and the birds and the trees;
O let the words be in praise
of the sunshine between
the leaves


so you can sing
beloved world,
if you like,
and I’d sleep
like a newborn
all day and all night;
I’ll sleep for always,
dearest world,
clear and innocent
in your warm fields
if you will sing me now
the sweet songs of the earth