TO THE SOLITARY BIRD SITTING

ON THE ELECTRICAL WIRE

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With drops of rain from the sagging electrical wire

rolling  down hastening into an intermittent flow to the ground ;

the bird sitting and brooding with her shrunken plumes

over  the delight of a different rain in the past it found

the  echo of which in the captive wind did resound --

of  a  youthful tune that her heart did constantly pound ;

she thought how time had slipped away from under her feathers

with  life’s complications over the years that did  compound ;

and not  knowing when the current of death had crept in

to the wires connecting her to the woeful watery ground

putting  her life on a  journey to sudden  death  bound

she  fell like an empty  rain drop silently to the ground

not  knowing what peace she from life really had found !!!

comp. n copyright: saroj k. padhi

04/07/14