Contrast Poem by Akhtar Jawad

Every one is looking at the beautiful red apple
but I am looking at the green leaves,
it's their miracle that an apple became an apple.
Everyone is appreciating the piece of beauty
but I am thinking about the rains that made the clay softer,
enabling the roots of an apple tree to reach the breasts of the earth.
Everyone is talking about the sweetness of the apple juice,
but I want to talk about the sense of sweetness in me,
enabling me to taste the sweetness of a forbidden fruit.
Dear God! I now realize why you created bitterness,
I am not thankful for the sweetness you created,
I am thankful to you that you created its contrast.