Rest your frantically beating heart
Against mine you restless sparrow
The eagle threatened to tear you apart -
Endlessly targeted by the crow,
You fled without pausing to rest
You fled again without a quest
Or goal, nothing but fleeing
Through lands and countries
Without ever stopping.
Calm your fluttering wings little bird
You are safe, snuggly in my arms,
Far from roofs covered in turd,
Protected from all harms -
I'm sure you want to be safe and happy
Little sparrow won't you stay with me
Rather than straining against strong
Storms and unrelentless winds...
Don't you long
For a home to stay?
Nay, said the small sparrow
Although you are so kind -
Peace will bring me only sorrow,
I need the winds to whip my mind
And danger to feel alive
Without the eagle and the crow,
Why would I plunge and dive
In and out of the sky, show
To all that there is hope
In a world of danger
That the smallest one can cope
And even get to love the anger
Of the helpless eagle and the crow!
Oh to see them rage
As their claws miss me by inches!
Your arms are a comfortable cage
Compared with the freedom of escape
As I shoot back into the sky...
You look doubtful but I never lie,
Trust me I would like to stay
To light up joy inside your eye!
Danger brought me to you,
Out of the winds that stray,
You made me a bed out of your shoe
And until nightmares went away
Stroked my beady head.
But trust me, staying I would only die.
Already I hear the call of the sky
I was born to be what I should be
And doing what I should do – that is to fly
And show everybody
How risk is living
And living is what I hold dear
Mocking the crow and the eagle
Not being warm and comfortable down here.
I heard his words, his tiny stern voice,
His desire for foreign lands
And reluctantly approved his choice,
Slowly opened my closed hands -
He flew out with ease
And left me sighing
Sometimes through the trees
I can still hear his singing
And rejoice that he still alive
And flying free.
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