A Partner By Her Side

It’s not that I love watching birds

I often sit down near the window browsing

Jotting with a pen and a diary in hand

To what comes of search in mind

This bird, caught my attention, a pigeon

Trying to break a twig, larger than her size

Abandons try picking up smaller ones

Abandons try once more the bigger one,

Dumps and flies away.

A couple of months back,

Was she sitting to hatch eggs?

There were two.

A passing crow,

Observed and hatched a plan

Before the eggs hatched

Whatever the crow did,

The bird did not leave the egg

Tired the crow flew off, only to come back

With a partner in crime

The first crow put his plan forth

 Challenging the bird

A while later, losing patience

A bird charged after Crow in defense

Leaving the poor eggs, an easy prey

For the second crow, swooped, on an egg

And flew away

After the crow, the pigeon went

Leaving her only egg defenseless

Walked in the first crow

Cool and calm feasting on egg

Leaving eggshells, scattered

 

Came back the bird, exhausted

Only to find,

Other eggs are broken & destroyed

Raging with anger,

Bird paced up & down

Upset, sad, accepting,

Finally sat down,

In the nest

Know not, what came to her mind

She flew away.

It’s the same place, twigs are being collected

And place, but this time

She has a partner, by her side.