gone away
two birds of blue, in youth, they’d played away
and through the years, somehow, they made a way
–
caution, their wings, turned fear into the rain
when storms drew near the bluebirds stayed away
–
sometimes, though, hurricanes leave no escape
and the other birds will have strayed away
–
but theirs, a life of love spent side by side,
is not a thing those birds would trade away
–
the storm subsiding to the dawn of day
revealed the egg the bluebirds laid away
–
but the bluejays son, lonely and afraid,
was only born that he might fade away
