A Case for Chirping

If all birds were songbirds, how dull,

 how quiet life would be:

24/7 nightingales,

 maddening tranquility!

We’d find ourselves yearning for that

 noisy mismatched chorale

that echoes our own tune so well,

 makes our existence real.

A seagull’s cry, a peacock’s shriek, 

the cackling of a crow —

we’d want them back where they belong, 

we’d miss their voices so.

Thus if celestial melodies 

fill up your soul today

but all you can produce is chirp!

 — then smile, and chirp away!

Live for the Love of it,

Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)

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