We're Birds!

We’re Birds

We’re birds! We’re birds!
Have we a career, or do we careen, or neither?
To wing! Take to wing!
Head for the eye of foul weather!
A mile away, can you see the ground clear?
I see the clouds circling in a huff.
The calm in the storm is our target!
The going, though fun, will be rough.

One day, just one day!
It’s all we’ve been given. Or a moment if you like.
The oncoming night is an egg for the eagle.
The night, the night, the night!
The eternal day is a fire for the Phoenix,
A hell for the sinners down there.
One of us wrote a Gospel to save them,
The rest of us don’t give a care.

Hush, hush. The hunters are coming.
That crow, he gave us away.
Would you stop that chattering?
Who did we lose along the way?
Make a break! Make your break!
My wing has been torn!
I am lost. Carry our cry to the mountain!