Kalikke's Poems — "Echoes"

"If someone asks me The saddest things I've seen, I'll name a trampled rose, A child at a mother's grave, And two one-winged birds, locked in the same cage. Beauty without future, A last goodbye, and freedom lost, Wings meant to lift you to the sky, Now halved and useless, What are they now – the final sadness? And yet there's something stronger, deeper, That lives despite it. Hope."