I was never a good looking man

Short, chubby with very little hair

When I was young, I fell off my bike

It left me in a wheelchair

People would look at me

With pity in their eyes

I see the look and it makes me cry

I hear kids laugh at me, always making fun

I don’t think it’s fair, don’t like the puns

I sit in this wheelchair and reflect my past

Boy, as an ugly kid, I could run soo fast

I wok...

I was a girl, once

And in that time I noticed

That boys are told

To treat girls like princesses

Or even Queens

But the problem was

You can’t treat a princess

Like a queen

And you can’t treat a queen

Like a princess

Princesses need to be protected

They are at sometimes

Sweet and kind

But at others

Needy and demanding

They need reassurance

And gentle love

Queens want to be protected

Thou...

The quickened thumping in my breast

So much faster, more frantic than before

The switching, flitting of my crest

As my eyes and ears catch and filter more

It’s maddening to me

After such a life of sullied foot and hand

That this is what I should be

Something now so light and free, so grand

For in my human life, as it passed

Though long enough and healthy, too

Nothing I loved and held could eve...

Up on high I do fly

A bird way up in the sky

Wings that flap, on statues I do crap

Sitting on branches covered in sap

Sometimes I wish it was only a dream

I miss those days so it does seem

This I know would ease my soul

Being a bird is a heavy toll

I wish I was human once more

And not having to fly and soar

Walk upon the earth like before

A human I wish I was once more...

The robin dips on morning breeze,

A flash of crimson through the trees.

It sings its ancient, simple tune,

Beneath the pale and rising moon.

But in the beat of fragile breast,

A different cadence finds its rest.

A phantom ache for solid ground,

A world where other senses crowned.

Even now, it remembers what it was like

To have hands, to touch, to hold, and to feel.

The brush of silk, the weight of...

I remember the days

The haze

Of life in a maze

Of rights being wrong

The unbroken song

While the broken danced along

Oh how those times

were never mine

Never fine

Oh how I cried

And cried

When she died

Life with a wife

When I was human

Bound by strife

Oh how the knife

Should have taken my life

But grief

let me fly

Gave me wings

when I cried

Now I am a bird

Without the burden

Of this worl...

Feathers red,

Beak yellow.

This is how I’ve always been,

In both my lives.

I used to have bright red hair,

Fiery that blew in the wind.

My face yellow.

Freckles everywhere.

Now instead of freckles,

I have dirt.

Permanent dirt that doesn’t come off.

It looked messy.

The other birds think I don’t

Take care of myself.

I do.

I once said those two words

In my human life.

So happy, fil...

I try to forget,

The life I once had

The memories are strong,

And the roots, they are deep.

The people I knew,

Who I loved,

Who I cared for,

Who knew the person I was.

How I wish,

I could see

Even the ones

Who hurt me.

The places I’d been,

The ones that I loved,

And the places that scared me

To be

For the time

Moves too slowly,

And everything I have known

Is now dust

Memories painful,

I was ...

In a world where people live together in harmony, people laughing, talking, dancing. There was something about that moment where the little blue jay didn’t understand. He knew what it was to feel that way but those feelings were now gone, forever… Forever, that word startled him would he ever feel the same way again? He lost his human body and Now he’s a little bird. What can a little bird do? Not...

The irony

Of the iron bars

No longer being the thing that cages me

The wishing

For the ability to fly

No longer the empty dream

The fall

From apex predator to prey

Was long, though I soared to a landing

The grass

A luscious emerald green

Faded to brown on this side of the fence

The memory

Of touching, holding

Plagues me like an unending nightmare

The adage

Of being careful what you wish for

Was ne...