If I were a bird,395Please respect copyright.PENANASwAkWx9F9M
I would sing with my sweetest voice,395Please respect copyright.PENANAN2MTDwPdW1
Spilling melodies into the morning light,395Please respect copyright.PENANAahEawkTvaD
Perched on a bench in Hyde Park.
Buffeted by rain, torn by storms,395Please respect copyright.PENANAPL5jgGBUf5
I would glide across the river,395Please respect copyright.PENANArh7sdk7XcH
Skimming the ripples of a world too loud,395Please respect copyright.PENANAqO7uRcNdRw
Fluttering through the ego of men.
I would build my nest in their gardens,395Please respect copyright.PENANAhgs2WD0g5Z
Perch on their trees, watch unseen.395Please respect copyright.PENANAyY93AKqkyn
Whisper secrets to the flowers,395Please respect copyright.PENANA9KtdQYT2Za
As if nature still belonged to me.
But the air would turn heavy in my lungs,395Please respect copyright.PENANAEvAflQWong
The water thick with man’s decay.395Please respect copyright.PENANAJPv7yVY81T
And I would falter, breathless,395Please respect copyright.PENANAM3rJC2Nt85
Drowning in what they left behind.
Alone, I would fall,395Please respect copyright.PENANAjHDoY9ZbmJ
No different from any other,395Please respect copyright.PENANA2UWoPlUH6C
A tiny, nameless thing,395Please respect copyright.PENANAvhvgRQh7DT
Swallowed whole—395Please respect copyright.PENANAzvlxT526aW
A life forgotten,395Please respect copyright.PENANAp5ho6AdxGb
Vanished in the human world.