#Highway 39







#Highway 39

A lone bird sings
Amidst the half-light of
A day yet unborn

It sings of love
Or does it?
A freedom song

The road is still,
Silent, another sound
A dark, foreboding, shrill

Somewhere in distant green
A crimson floods
Dank, seeping, silent scream

In lands elsewhere
Across the streams
Birds still sing
Life, love, all and more

Alas! Here, only
At Highway Thirty Nine
A lone bird sings.


~  Judith Vaddi

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