The Cicada’s Song


The Cicada's Song

Leena Doley

The Cicada’s Song

Forlorn and bereft
She sits waiting for the unknown

The cicadas call
Crickets sing the lonesome song

The twilight sun sets beckoning
The end of yet another
Life of waiting

For fairy lights to appear
In the mists surrounding
The hills lonely

A solitude proud
Unwanted too

The music of the evening
Comforting
Inviting sleep

Yet her eyes dream without closing
And the night remains mysterious, long

Leena Doley

Leena Doley is a police officer and a mother of two. She is also a voracious reader, movie buff, feminist, dabbler in new experiences and a dreamer imagining a world which is equal and humane.