Thanks for your thoughts, Snow. Though similar, the last 2 lines really deal with 2 distinct subjects that the 'world will hear' - the song/message and the singers/messengers. I feel that distinction is important.

Thanks again, Terence

hey T--Too quick for me...look see again...
you need not replyto this as you did methat x1 already~p

a few suggests that make it clearer to me!

Sunday mornin’ and the crows
are flockin’ in the field
raisin’ raucous cries to Heaven,
prayin’ to be heard.

Why them crows, cannot fly
away from that field, 
mired in the past, as they are
in what has been instilled,
what, is holdin' them, back?

If they would set aside that past
voices raised, unsurpassed,
they could lift and take wing,
become a chorus and sing...

then the world could not ignore,
them, could not help
but hear them,
their song become,
eventually sweet.
as familiar and accepted
as any posssibility

A loaded question, Terry, to which I'd say, Dr. King was the last REAL choirmaster.  

Terence

Thanks for that reply, Terry.

Yes, most birds are free but only a few are classified as songbirds.

Terence

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