Stray Thoughts Poem by Vinaya Joseph

As the dawn breaks,
And a new day begins,
I hear and see
An orchaestra,
Being performed
A flock of crows
Perched on my trees
-Jackfruit, Mahogany, Areca and Coconut
While some sit on the clothes line in my veranda,
And start singing incessantly,
Kaw Kaw Kaw Kaw
I pause and wonder,
At Master's creation
I consider,
You the most intelligent,
Among the avian species
Your pitch-black plumage,
With shades of gray,
Around your neck
Makes you attractive
Some say you are ugly
But I consider,
Ugliness as a blessing in disguise
Some times being ugly helps
As it saves you
From being preyed
By selfish humans
Each time,
I see you cawing
With your beak,
Moving rhythmically
Up and down
I feel,
You are lucky and blessed
To always have a song!
Some say you are a nuisance
But I think,
It is a mean world out there
And in order to survive,
In this race of life
You need to be bloody clever
‘Clever as a crow'
How else could you explain?
‘Survival of the fittest',
As Spencer coined,
And Darwin mentioned,
In his ‘Origin of Species'
And finally,
When dusk sets in
And I see the moon rise,
I see you preparing your wings
Getting ready to fly,
To touch the horizon
I pause and wonder,
Yet again,
At Master's creation