In Utter Solitude Poem by Naveed Raja

Beneath the apple tree,
In the month of March,
I laid on the virgin grass,
The site there was like that of a wrasse.


I gazed through the bare boughs.
The clear blue sky was what I could see.
Its dazzling beauty refined my thought,
And it reminded me of my Lord.


The Warden of the whole cosmos,
And Warden of the Garden of Eden.
Where Adam & Eve lived their life,
In glee, in gaiety and in no strife.


Suddenly a pigeon flock caught my eye,
Which flew over the same lone tree.
Though they soon betrayed my sight,
And aroused in me a strange fright.


But what didn't betray me was the tree,
Which stood lonely and reminded me,
Of the human nature which it could believe,
'So selfish...So fraud', it told me...