nightingales song

nightingale
your melodious song of love

flows on the night breeze
so tender and warm in the still evening

as to melt hearts that sit near

is your love undying in its breath

and lost to the beauty of the open moment? 

or has it been caught in desire to hold another

and keep it for yourself? 

so true is the o ne love as to be the all

never to put an ache in your breast again

or to set you out to call
the name of your beloved 

as you sit on the branches
looking out into the depths of the night..

awaiting and anxiously watching..

your brown plumage like the earth so bare..
if you are to fly free 

away from this tree of sorrow 

homeward to melt in the dawn
of an awakened mind ..

then leave out this call
for another to come and make your soul complete

oh rich notes that rise in glory from your throat

do not put to shame the absolute
or waste your energies in a divided way
to sew seeds of unrest
here amongst nature so very free at heart

come fix your sight on transcending
your want of something other 

be complete as you are now

as your call then is within the light

that stretches far beyond
your small form and finery of your colors
and sweet appearance

nightingale fly tonight away 

and set yourself against the full moon 

to be swallowed there 

never to come again as shadow

but only to rise brilliant

as the dawn of true knowledge...