'Notes'

'Notes'
(for JD)

About those notes:
You know, (no, you don't really)
notes that I still write to you,
foolish notes you've never seen
-and birds -I think of birds' notes too-
I mean those birds that sing their mating songs,

(Does a bird keep doing, doing,
even though the thing went wrong?)

Can he quit and go away?
(Does a bird know how to sigh?)
Does he keep on doing doing?
Or does he slowly, die?

Still my solitary notes continue,
still repeat a gentle song,
slowly, softly, sadly, singing:

'...too long, too long, too long, to long...

--jorge999