I Was Pondering Do Trees Get Lonely? Poem by Mahfooz Ali

Today I looked out over a field and noticed a tree
standing alone in the middle of all that open space,
not very exciting by most people's standards,
but serenely magnificent to me.
I began to wonder, do trees get lonely?
There this old man stood, an enormous oak, all alone,
with only an assortment of weeds growing beneath his awesome
arms.

Over 100 years of age I would say he was,
his seed carelessly dropped by a mother bird carrying
food to her hungry young perhaps.
Had he stood there all those years, alone,
with no others to sway with when the winds blew?
I wonder, do trees get lonely?
I should wonder not, for a man will whither and die
if left to grow alone. Here before me stands a beautiful
creation of Allah.
His magnificence is truly a splendor to behold.
All alone, so happy he must be.
Fortunate am I to have taken time to admire his grandeur,
as many would have merely passed him by.