Eagle's Cry

Soaring majestic clear skies
Only those wonderous flies
Looking up
Lies the envy of many landed ducks
The ants only sees the eagle at height
Not knowing that the eagle cries at night

His majesty owns the sky
So why it needs to cry
Be the lord of great blue plains
Is the wishful hope of many little dames
But inneath heart's weakest lames
Is a soul that can weep in pain

Sorrow sits as buddy mate
Loneliness serves on plate
Watching ants in clusters
Can barely hide in plasters
For the heartness wound may just tear
At the slightest touch there

Born as an eagle
Endowed upon freedom's freeder
To be fighter's leader
Torn by a love for land
A eagle can't be bounded then
Chained eagle is just a dead man
-- 31/1/02

Commentary

These two poems (Joy of Lion and Eagle's Cry) are analogous duets of each other, in the sense that they speaks of opposite emotional tones. The emotional-existential extremeties of a youthful "great man" are imposed on two animals of majesty, the lion and the eagle.

The lion sets to enjoy the glamour of being in high places, the envious eyes of many sighting him. To many, a lion's achievements only exist in dreams, never attainable......

The eagle sets to epic a wound in the heart. "The greatest has no friends." And certainly, this is a sorrow for the eagle, for he has to fly alone and in loneliness. In the day, he enjoys all the shine but at night, he can only shed tears in silence. He wants to be down on land for a while but doesn't know how to...... Being an eagle, his mission is to lord over, therefore, despite his desires, being landed will make him lose all zeal...