Beware!

022 - Beware!
by Saleh Badrah

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray
Warbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
~ John Milton (1608-1674)

I dream a gentle nightingale
Is sweetly singing on a tree
And that a crafty slimy fox
Is slyly watching from afar.
My inner self then wakes me up
And whispers in my ear: Beware!

Published in the Saudi Gazette, Thursday, 25 June 1998
Copyright © Saleh Badrah