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Make Me A Bird
The gentle wind caressing my skin,
As I look up to the sky
I shut my eyes, breath in the air
The day has just slipped by
I rest upon a watching Oak
Whispering longing words
If I could just be free, please
Make me a bird
I’d be a mockingbird,
And sing of my own song
Or maybe a scarlet-crested robin,
Tending to my young
The blood-red of a cardinal,
Perching on a pine
A velvet-purple coronet,
The intriguing color of wine
Maybe plain and fitting,
The brown of a sparrow
I long to be a blue jay,
Striking in the snow
I open my eyes and spread my arms
As the suns abandons day
Please make me a bird,
So I can fly away
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“Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far. Far far away from here.”
~Forrest Gump.