My Childhood Friend - -That Tree! Poem by mamutty CHOLA

MY CHILDHOOD FRIEND - -THAT TREE!

That tree was my companion since childhood

Spent many, many years of childhood, playing under its shade.

I would watch the tree from my house's veranda.


There was special bondage between us.
That tree though fully green dressed up like bride but, had one of its top branches totally withered.


But still abode of nests of different types of birds; be it Myina,

Nightingale, Pigeons and would give shelter to all under its benevolent shade, during summer heat or rain.



I would go and sit under its shade for preparing for examination mostly alone or at times with friends.Left to ourselves, no distraction.



After finishing schooling I went to Madras now Chennai for higher studies.And remained away for a very long time, When returned after many, many years.I was looking for my beloved tree.



Alas! it had become a victim of craze for development.In its place a shopping Mall had come up. Oh Men! you are destroying mother earth! ! .Trees are poetry of the earth,



The flow of time is non-stop in its march towards eternity. We, human beings are passengers, not crews on a ship called time. What an irony, youth and time once gone never return unlike season.And old age once comes remains with us while our sojourn on earth.