Make Light Your Heart

I was writing an exam

But the crow was a nuisance

It sat on the window sill

And cawed its heart out.

The teacher tried to shoo it away

It fled momentarily

But returned to hold its sway

On the window sill

Outside the exam hall.

I got angry at its disturbance

Then tried to ignore it.

But the cawing was insistent

Then the teacher said-

Think of it as the crow’s way of helping you

Its voice it can’t help

It can only say what it can

Therefore it caws

To ease your stress.

Her words at first seemed a joke

But as the cawing fell repeatedly on my ears

My heart suddenly found connection with it

The strain of exam disappeared

It was nature’s music making my soul purer and lighter.

 

 

 

 

A carrion crow sat on an oak,
Sing heigh ho, the carrion crow,
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding ho,
Watching a tailor shape his coat.
Sing heigh ho, the carrion crow,
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding ho.Wife, bring me my old bent bow,
Sing heigh ho, the carrion crow,
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding ho,
That I may shoot yon carrion crow.
Sing heigh ho, the carrion crow,
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding ho.The tailor he shot and missed his mark,
Sing heigh ho, the carrion crow,
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding ho,
And shot his own sow right through the heart.
Sing heigh ho, the carrion crow,
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding ho.

-A Carrion Crow Sat on an Oak

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