Birdsong, swansong

So now this song is deeply sad
And speaks of what is lost that we once had

Where in beforetimes when it sweetly spoke
It was of promise, and of spring
And of that lovely unsaid thing

Now that sad song taunts me slow
For what I once did long ago
And now my private heartbreak sounds
Where loneliness has found its open grounds

Yet in those brilliant mocking eyes
I’ve seen a song which never dies
And lonely on our heartbeat lies
   
For goodbyes speak long in tones unheard
When we have woken voices of love’s lonely birds