Amelie Ison Poet Free verse

The last song of the Kaua'i 'o'o bird

So if this be the last song I sing,
Let it be more beautiful and haunting
Than anything I have performed on this earth before.

Let the open night echo my words
In pity
For no one will ever respond anymore.

Let my unanswered call

Coil the chain around my neck and restrain me to this branch
As I break the silence of my lonely demise.

I sing, not to be heard,

But to remind myself that I am it:
This is the end.

Hear the echo. Isn’t it beautiful?
To hear the voice of death.
Perhaps it sounds familiar; like the voice of a friend… 

How many songs, howls and cries have you heard,
Unaware that there will never be another one like it again?

I am alone in a world filled with life.
Life that is collapsing in on itself.

I was born dead.

But at least then I was not alone.
Now, I sing with the diminishing hope that someone will answer.

But I know Death will sooner reach me.
And when that happens

I will be free.

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Jeanette Swan January 13, 2026 at 3:29 AM I had to find the song to listen to - yes, so melancholy, like the last living musical instrument. Extinction is so sad. I'm gglad though that you wrote about it, and that someone recorded the artefact of the sound. J

Beata Agustin August 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Meanwhile, I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.