#warbler
My heart hums melodies of distant birds...
Over yonder, below the big blue
A cardinal croons
A redbird misses you
Over yonder, below the big blue
A yellow bird cries
Warbling “woe is you”
Two birds dance
and skip, and trade in verse
While softly wishing, on the same wire they’d be perched
A dance to court,
Hopeful heartfelt flying nigh
But it’s a bluebird’s kiss
Whose cadence I wish were mine
Jan 4, 2020
Jan 4, 2020 at 11:50 PM UTC
Whoever swoops into my heart next
please don't make a nest
and then fly away when you're ready to be on your own.
Don't use me as a shelter
to keep you from the drowning rain
and expect me to feed you
when nothing else is living.
It’s hard holding a home sturdy
sufficiently well for my aching soul.
The branches are already trembling
the weeping wind echoing
lost, diminished cries
of the ones who took off.
I know I push you away
when you get too close,
but this is where you fight to hold on longer.
I keep losing the ones I love
because they have not loved me
enough to stay.
Sep 28, 2015
Sep 28, 2015 at 12:49 AM UTC