If I were a bird,393Please respect copyright.PENANAC4bDc6f7A9
I would sing with my sweetest voice,393Please respect copyright.PENANAn74DcgOu01
Spilling melodies into the morning light,393Please respect copyright.PENANAGZ3FQ1Fm8h
Perched on a bench in Hyde Park.
Buffeted by rain, torn by storms,393Please respect copyright.PENANAHqlBUF9fIn
I would glide across the river,393Please respect copyright.PENANAjXR9gFyukl
Skimming the ripples of a world too loud,393Please respect copyright.PENANAEvNEN8jRqo
Fluttering through the ego of men.
I would build my nest in their gardens,393Please respect copyright.PENANApnnc1jSILw
Perch on their trees, watch unseen.393Please respect copyright.PENANADLjMIIsDoO
Whisper secrets to the flowers,393Please respect copyright.PENANA4i6NAMvef8
As if nature still belonged to me.
But the air would turn heavy in my lungs,393Please respect copyright.PENANAGN3aw8T0Og
The water thick with man’s decay.393Please respect copyright.PENANASZF6raZz87
And I would falter, breathless,393Please respect copyright.PENANAsRQUU3jpa0
Drowning in what they left behind.
Alone, I would fall,393Please respect copyright.PENANACncikrO1QI
No different from any other,393Please respect copyright.PENANAQg0scF1nH9
A tiny, nameless thing,393Please respect copyright.PENANAnKV7g3SvzA
Swallowed whole—393Please respect copyright.PENANAvk2ofsi6lN
A life forgotten,393Please respect copyright.PENANAOAYGg9swK1
Vanished in the human world.