Bird... Poem by Dustin Bradley

Hello bird!
Hello beautiful, gentle, loving, humming little bird!
So powerful is your song,
As it dances through the air,
One of the sweetest sounds I've ever heard...

For so long I've lived without this song,
in my life, in my heart I've longed
For the melody that I hear now.
And I pray that you stay and feel belonged,
and loved, yet still free to sing your song.

I adore you pretty bird, I do!
From the moment I first saw you I knew,
you were special and different and true,
I just knew.

I keep asking, is this a dream? This song that I hear?
Is it real? It is not, that I fear,
and soon I will wake to find you neither far nor near,
and your song, bouncing along the subtle breeze, is gone,
no longer can I hear.

Do not fret! My heart tells me, let such thoughts go.
Who really knows? No one can predict what comes and goes!
Love now, unconditionally this wonderful, strong, amazing little bird,
who sees what she is shown.
Yet, my heart she owns and doesn't know.

Be the branch on which she perches to sing,
and when her throat is dry and parched,
become the flowing spring, my heart commands.
So now, I vow, to be the air to hold her wings,
as she glides,
and the breath she breathes for the songs she will sing...

For I love her
and in the beautiful bird, I believe...