The End Of An Eternal Friendship I Poem by Aarna Pandey, 11, Gurgaon
Chaos is taking over the world at a faster pace. Aarna Pandey, an 11-year-old from Gurgaon, pens a thought-provoking poem on the same.
The End Of An Eternal Friendship
Blinded by greed, we can no longer see.
The parched lake and the withered tree
Their eternal friendship meets a miserable end.
A painful saga of two best friends.
The story began aeons ago.
Through heat, storms, rain, and snow,
Stirred with care and compassion,
Immersed in kindness and passion.
The tree would admire itself in the crystal waters.
Inhabited by joyful flamingos and playful otters,
The lake would excitedly chatter for long hours.
While splashing the tree and the sunflowers.
Graciously, the bountiful lake fed the tree.
While the tree was home to the swamp of bees,
Calmly, the lake slept under the tree’s shadow.
And the winds rendered a lullaby with a blow.
The lake’s beauty is amplified by moonlight.
And the resplendent green tree shines so brightly.
Wearing a blanket of water, the fish play hide and seek.
And the parrot on the tree carries twigs in its beak.
With no inkling that their paradise would be crushed,
Their existence was erased with a stroke of a brush.
Along came a human with an axe in his hand,
To create ravages in their heavenly land.
He chopped down the tree and polluted the lake.
I hunted the fish and cooked a steak.
The morbid animals began to flee,
Leaving alone the lake and the tree.
Their towering friendship came toppling down.
Buried in the grounds of the beautiful town.
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