I Saw A Tunnel Full Of Flowers Poem by Abu Sufian

I Saw A Tunnel Full Of Flowers



I saw a bunch of flowers dancing in a vacant tunnel
Upon first sight, it appears like an animated garden
A garden that needs not watering, pruning
A garden that grows out of dust, neglected soil
A garden without a gardener

Weeks before, there was no flower,
no sign of beauty in the tunnel
Wastage, poisonous lifeless water occupied
Out of this wasteland, the flower trees came into to being,
They bloomed scarlet flowers that spread beauty
and caught the beholders eyes

This eye-catching beauty,
the radiant flowers' charming fragrance
and strength of beauty over ugliness,
make me voiceless. I translate this emotion to a poem,
a poem that lets me dream of a humanless world,
a world without human intervention, occupation and invasion
We, who poisoned this earth,
intervened every nook and granny of it,
from the farthest Antarctica to remotest Arctic, nothing left out

This garden on the tunnel will be a short-lived one
Soon we will contaminate it
Soon it will be reopened, and watered with factory wastage
The innocent flowers will die
and countless others before even blooming

For our insatiable need, we are infecting the world
A world once was beautiful without us, full of flowers, life and purity.

Note: This poem has been published in the poetry anthology titled Voice of Monarch Butterflies (July 15,2016) from USA. p.54-55

Saturday, January 21, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: environmental rights,flower,world
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Abu Sufian

Abu Sufian

Comilla, Bangladesh
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