Beautiful Solitude (written in 1990)

By V. Shruti Devi (quill-o-the-wisp)

Hi, this is a poem i wrote on the 15th of February, 1990.
Am currently working on an annotated version of my entire collection of poems, for publication in a book, but i choose to upload this work here today:

Beautiful Solitude

                                                            15/2/1990

Much has Man created

__Much more than meets the

     Eye

And I speak not of fancy things

Nor of war and peace speak I.

Stop, my friend, and think

                                    awhile

Of human relationships and

                          human ties

We revere and accept these earth-time bonds

__Live we not in a fool’s paradise?

     Some time of ours is spent on

                                             Earth

Call it a gruelling test,

Call it a short respite

Where human beings align

                         themselves

With others of their race

As if forever

Here, in this dream-like place.

These bonds are but the

                 creation of Man

That offer him security

In this short span.

Hark! let the truth unfold

It is not as bitter as it seems

__Not as cold.

    For alone we come

    And alone we go

  And so alone we shall be

      Forever more.