He’s the odd bird out I tell my wife His time is up full spent his life Bereft of feathers peeps out his skin He doesn’t deserve anymore caged in.
He could now the others infect For the ones healthy him must reject Once he is gone we would have the good four Let us be practical and show him the door.
My wife a kind lady looks at me askance Is this the same man or someone else by chance Then bringing herself together says with a stern face How could you be so cruel and horribly pitiless!
I reason with her time is closing for him to die We would do it better if we let him taste the sky His life is already wasted enslaved in your cage Why not give it the wind to fly turn over a new page!
She isn’t convinced an iota from what I clearly spell Get in her eyes the clouds impending rains well It’s too late now she says not to let him end his life In the world he knows his own with a family of the five!