Lightly - Quickly - Soft...

Lightly, quickly, soft,
A bird song
Climbs the sky as day
Begins.
I listen - it is gone.
It seemed to stop only because
I listened.

Never, never in anything -
At dawn, in splendid daylight,
Or in the golden sunset -
Have I found
A pleasure that would last
Beyond the nothingness,
The loss,
Before coming
To enjoy it...