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Soaring majestic clear skies Only those wonderous flies Looking up Lies the envy of many landed ducks The ants only sees the eagle at height Not knowing that the eagle cries at night His majesty owns the sky So why it needs to cry Be the lord of great blue plains Is the wishful hope of many little dames But inneath heart's weakest lames Is a soul that can weep in pain Sorrow sits as buddy mate Loneliness serves on plate Watching ants in clusters Can barely hide in plasters For the heartness wound may just tear At the slightest touch there Born as an eagle Endowed upon freedom's freeder To be fighter's leader Torn by a love for land A eagle can't be bounded then Chained eagle is just a dead man -- 31/1/02 Commentary

These two poems (Joy of Lion and Eagle's Cry) are analogous duets of each other, in the sense that they speaks of opposite emotional tones. The emotional-existential extremeties of a youthful "great man" are imposed on two animals of majesty, the lion and the eagle.

The lion sets to enjoy the glamour of being in high places, the envious eyes of many sighting him. To many, a lion's achievements only exist in dreams, never attainable......

The eagle sets to epic a wound in the heart. "The greatest has no friends." And certainly, this is a sorrow for the eagle, for he has to fly alone and in loneliness. In the day, he enjoys all the shine but at night, he can only shed tears in silence. He wants to be down on land for a while but doesn't know how to...... Being an eagle, his mission is to lord over, therefore, despite his desires, being landed will make him lose all zeal...