Poem: 24-4-2014

Poem involving masonry!

Roof Over Our Heads!

What is the importance about a roof

Over our heads? A roof of hard concrete

Solid, pre-cast, stable, immovable

But my roofs are trees, ever expansive

All encompassing, gathering to the womb

Of mother earth. Its wide branches swaying,

Dancing in the breeze, moving to the beat

Of invisible wind-drums, not air-tight

Sealed coffins for our material times

To keep wealth in, health and happiness out

Build roof over roof, trying to touch the sky,

This is unattainable through money

Milestones moves further as they move nearer.

Lying under my roof, the sun filters

Shines with falling rain, each drop divided

By leaves, fall as sprays, refreshes my face.

Why do we want to be hedged in and

Confined by unnatural fixed roof?

We have grown to like artificiality

It stops our souls from rejuvenation

It stops it from reaching for the skies

From touching the stars, the open heavens.

To the concrete coffin, a millstone

Let me prefer the roof of the heavens

As a roof over our heads!

 ©2014 April

Lalarukh Lasharie