SOLITUDE

Sodagudi Soloman

Solitude! I bid you welcome with my wholesome heart

And be you dear my inseparable part

From your undisturbed presence derive I indeed pleasure infinite,

And acquire knowledge utilising times every precious minute.

Every time I dwelt in you, turned my brain conducive to lofty thoughts

And could see through your pure serenity solutions to may rigid knots

Being an abode for peace and tranquility,

Instilled thou in poets, inspirations deep as could compose

exquisite lines of musical beauty

Often you are seen sitting in prison - cells, caves, forests and on sea – shores

And sullen wives and men cloyed with their marital life take to your course

In the cozy lap of yours, Lord Buddha had, wisdom dawned upon him

And devotes like Ramadas and Annamaya penned many a sacred hymn.

All sages in the great Indian mythology

Become so, having consigned to you their lives rosy.

Under your influence in prison - house, produced

Greatmen like Socrates and Nehru, works that can never to

nothingness be reduced.

O Solitude! I therefore consider you a gift granted by God

And with some unknown contentment to you do I sing this laud.

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