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Talk of the Flock - Their Most Pristine Objection
May 26, 2015
Little one
you wish to be a Nightingale?
but can you soar above the clouds?
chase the sunrise with your ruby feathers?
scream to summer dew in dazzling defiance?
can you float among the Stars?
your diamond eyes twinkling with serenity
and be Brighter than the dawn?
Glimmer like the dusk?
and like the opal moon, can you
Shimmer?
just as we do?
No
you are Only a bee
buzzing away, one hum in a
beehive
but we
we are Nightingales
You simply
Don’t
Fit
In
© Sarah A., Escondido, CA
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When one considers the word Nightingale, they picture a soaring masterpiece of a bird, far above the lesser sparrow or swallow. Its song is lovely, after all, and its name seems to suggest a bird as black as night, mysterious and beautiful as the rising moon. But upon closer examination, the nightingale proves to be something different. For all of its twittering announcement, the bird itself is rather bland. Its beauty was simply the talk of the flock.