Eternal Weeping

The cries of the curlew sandpiper

Are no longer able to be deciphered.

The swooping of the great glider

Is put to rest beside her.

A singular whispering sound

From a time too soon drowned. 

Sliding across the ground

Performing for an empty crowd.

Still the weeping myall wails

Forsaken by our human fails. 

Still the throbbing cries prevail

No matter what the future entails.

Buried under the deserted field

Remain generations of pain concealed.

Demeter cried and rose to flee

The pains of the eternal weeping tree.