Mocking Birds

O fair lark who first sang with Much summery mirth She casts her gaze upon Fresh pastures and dark waters O sweet lark, What see you in bright dawn light? By day the mockingbird entertains thoughts of freedom Her throat holds caricatures of joyful songs O mockingbird, Whose hymns do thy warble In the noontide fair? By the afternoon crows gather to witness a murder feast on the bones of their lovers O thy villainous creatures To whom do you confess your sins in the milky twilight? O beautiful philomel, O love, by night fall her song falls on deaf ears She cringes as the cold sets in O fair philomel, where are you in the dusty hallows of the eve? ------------------ philomel - old poetic term for nightingale, from the myth of Philomela who is raped/abused. * Female nightingales do not sing.