A bird with a bright plumed tail
Befriended a fish with golden scales
Together they would chitchat late into the night
Of a world under water, and a world in the sky.

In time the bird grew fond of the fish with golden scales
While the fish fell in love with the bird with a bright plumed tail.
“Come share my world!” asked the fish with delight
The bird only said, “Getting wet don’t feel right.”
“Then take me with you,” the fish would implore.
Fond as he was, the bird thought even that a chore.

The bird would fly from tree to tree
While the fish, with him, longed to be.
With other birds he would fly far and wide
And the fish could only watch and cry.

Further and further the bird would fly
Leaving the fish for days at a time.
Denied a world without his friend the fish soon died.
The bird lamenting, “ I could not love him as he did I.”

I hear your sorrow oh bird with the bright plumed tail
Replied an owl awoke by his wail.
He knew you could not live with him in the sea
And he to STAY with you that could not be.

You told him of worlds he wanted to know
And listened while he talked of his home.
And when he needed to have more
You found his pleas so easy to ignore.

The sun and clouds he desired to see
He needed you to just be his wings
The thrill of flight was yours to give
If not your love then just that gift