Hi-Bye Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

By mistake
She ended in the room
All around the windows and the walls
She flies
Wildly flies
Hits the walls
I observe with surprise
I see her when she falls
I reach out to save her, her claws

“Oh my eye”
I cry and retract

She knows me
I know her
When and how?
We don’t know.
But our looks wait and see
“Who’ll start? ”

Time passes
I remained
So did she
No hi, bye

She has left
Her looks though
Waiting looks for a hi
Like the claws of that bird
Are in eyes and in mind; even heart

“Who was she?
Why not I?
Why not her?
Neither one said hi, bye.”