"Lost Voices, a Haiku Poem"

by Calli Mulligan

First language, first music

Our Earth ever heard

The voices of birds

Waves of sound, Carrying,

Traveling, heralding

Life's expansion of emotion

Human ancestors

Heard you, did they envy you?

Did they long for your song?

Nature's slow clock

Ticking, tinkering, misty hands

Of Evolution

A forest, rustling leaves,

Your songs, are quietude

For anxious souls

Ancient symphonies

Now overwhelmed, dissonance

Human cacophony

Our kin of the feathers

Vanishing too fast, lost voices

Distorted weather

The myth of Cassandra

Condemned to speak truth

But never to be believed

Feathers speak honestly

Prophecy, Augury

Ourselves, we deceive