Feb 11, 2018 Original Poetry

Of What Does A Person Sing?
©February 11th, 2018
By Vijaya Sundaram

Of what does a person sing?
Of love and loss, and life and death –
Everything comes down to these.
And yet, and yet …

Like a koel singing liquid notes
Loud and yearning on a rainlit afternoon,
We call and call, and hear echoes
From hidden kin, who fly out
Sometimes, or simply call back.

And it’s always the same, haunting call,
Always filled with want, with need,
And always pregnant with hope:
That someone, somewhere, will hear us,
And that we did not sing for nothing,
That we didn’t walk this earth in vain.
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