If I were a bird,438Please respect copyright.PENANATKItLxNyQc
I would sing with my sweetest voice,438Please respect copyright.PENANAzjf6OIMoaN
Spilling melodies into the morning light,438Please respect copyright.PENANAYDhkiafMcn
Perched on a bench in Hyde Park.
Buffeted by rain, torn by storms,438Please respect copyright.PENANAFtz2Gl09s6
I would glide across the river,438Please respect copyright.PENANAOWdwYFS3nG
Skimming the ripples of a world too loud,438Please respect copyright.PENANA3f7YlVU2el
Fluttering through the ego of men.
I would build my nest in their gardens,438Please respect copyright.PENANAxRMwxTej8C
Perch on their trees, watch unseen.438Please respect copyright.PENANAgCUDmULJ1Y
Whisper secrets to the flowers,438Please respect copyright.PENANArP1TUiUw1U
As if nature still belonged to me.
But the air would turn heavy in my lungs,438Please respect copyright.PENANATjqe9pug63
The water thick with man’s decay.438Please respect copyright.PENANATZhuxOhOtS
And I would falter, breathless,438Please respect copyright.PENANAYq98vEKrku
Drowning in what they left behind.
Alone, I would fall,438Please respect copyright.PENANAvKYDY9FVHr
No different from any other,438Please respect copyright.PENANA43chXknEex
A tiny, nameless thing,438Please respect copyright.PENANA6QoPEzR7RR
Swallowed whole—438Please respect copyright.PENANAhNVdBHCFsR
A life forgotten,438Please respect copyright.PENANAsCRyVIfxNf
Vanished in the human world.