The Pale Melody

Why is your sweet song so sad,
As you chirp beneath the trees,
What worry pales the melody
And drapes it in melancholy?

Can it be that the tune you sing
Is devoid of emotion
And it is within me that sorrow beckons,
The notes responding
To the tears trapped inside,
A well so deep
That no dropped stone resonates an echo...

Perhaps you are just afraid
Of the eagle flying high
That waits to clutch you in its talons
And steal the flight from your wings.

~ Rahul Misra ~