True Friends

Hey! How did you know the world is not the same now?

You visited me after a long time

Woke me up with your sweet chirps

I woke up happy and ran into my garden

I see you there, along with your kith and kin

And a number of other friends

Fearlessly hoping from branch to branch

Among the lush green leaves

That shine after bathing in an overnight rain

Proudly displaying their flowers

Of different colors-

Splashing red, soothing white, bright yellow, pretty violet

All of you look very cheerful and carefree

Are you celebrating the newfound freedom

From the ugly, blaring noises

Of vehicles, machines, and gadgets

That we humans make early in the morning?

Where were you all these years

As we were submerged in a maddening rat race

Supposedly enjoying a comfortable life

With all our machines, gadgets and vehicles

Which hardly soothed our tired minds,

Little realizing the farce, the emptiness, the pain?

How can we ever be happy 

In our artificial world of comforts

Without you all?