If I were a bird,371Please respect copyright.PENANAxfUADMcTBU
I would sing with my sweetest voice,371Please respect copyright.PENANA19BlusR8dM
Spilling melodies into the morning light,371Please respect copyright.PENANAIu7nmOkCH7
Perched on a bench in Hyde Park.
Buffeted by rain, torn by storms,371Please respect copyright.PENANAjdvr2qh3wA
I would glide across the river,371Please respect copyright.PENANANo2LJX0T55
Skimming the ripples of a world too loud,371Please respect copyright.PENANAvigHoiNl7J
Fluttering through the ego of men.
I would build my nest in their gardens,371Please respect copyright.PENANA75ccHwUhLP
Perch on their trees, watch unseen.371Please respect copyright.PENANABQXUlbcCVj
Whisper secrets to the flowers,371Please respect copyright.PENANAyGqdsxqeW9
As if nature still belonged to me.
But the air would turn heavy in my lungs,371Please respect copyright.PENANArp3t5gsuCO
The water thick with man’s decay.371Please respect copyright.PENANA4MA9CrsH3p
And I would falter, breathless,371Please respect copyright.PENANAUBS3RAmdRH
Drowning in what they left behind.
Alone, I would fall,371Please respect copyright.PENANAs9cpjqI0Yf
No different from any other,371Please respect copyright.PENANA5dBwBgzCDZ
A tiny, nameless thing,371Please respect copyright.PENANAS7n1wvP60O
Swallowed whole—371Please respect copyright.PENANAFWx1pCpT6w
A life forgotten,371Please respect copyright.PENANADMbxUE92nl
Vanished in the human world.