Guest post by Pahal Bhasin
What is happening? What do these thoughts mean?………
Nature takes me on a journey.
At first, she refreshes me:
I sit down in a bower cooler than an air-conditioned room,
The celestial sky brimming with splendor and wonderment,
The divine river beneath me shines like a silver paradise,
And all around me is a pleasing vacancy which gives my soul peace.
I forget everything and feel the purity and goodness in nature,
I enjoy the silence and release all the stress about school and studies.
But one day, when I was gazing at the stars, disturbing thoughts came to my mind:
I thought I might lose these unimaginable gifts of nature–
I might lose the river of paradise,
The shady bower,
The celestial sky,
The calmness, refreshment, silence, and the pleasing vacancy.
I could feel tears falling over my cheeks and closed my eyes.
This is not what I want to happen.
It’s like someone else is putting these thoughts in my mind.
I wish I could live in this moment happily, without any distraction or grief.
Pahal is twelve years old and studies in 7th grade in Excelsior American School, India. Besides poetry, she enjoys singing, dancing, drawing and sports, She is also a budding peace activist, passionate about waging peace between India and Pakistan. Pahal recently had a successful solo exhibition at an art gallery in Delhi where she showcased her collection of poetry and paintings on the theme of peace and nature. You can read more about her here.