The cuckoo sings beautiful melodies.
It has no guru to teach how to sing.
It has no help to learn different songs.
Yet, it sings, its voice melodious.
But the beautiful voice hides a cruel mind.
Cuckoo doesn’t build its own nest.
It lays the eggs in the crow’s nest,
along with the crow’s eggs.
It relies on the crow to raise them.
It is too lazy to do that work.
The crow sits on the eggs and provides warmth.
The eggs hatch and the chicks come out.
The crow treats the cuckoo’s chicks as its own.
It is unaware of the cuckoo’s treachery.
The cuckoo chicks eject the crow’s eggs or nestlings,
ensuring it gets all the food and attention.
The crow raises the cuckoo chicks, only realizing
the deception when the chick grows and makes different calls.
By then the cuckoo chicks have murdered all the crow’s chicks.
Still, we admire the cuckoo and treat crows as scavengers.
