Fair Ethiope Bird Poem by Abednego Oghenechovwiere Omashone

Don’t you look at me that way.
Aren’t your days happier than mine?
You sing you flap you peck
And though the busy boy’s ball
Will get you down someday,
Than me, merrier still you are.

This Ethiope bank I stand
We looking each afar
Know you what brought me here?
The world’s too much for me to bear
But here you sing you flap you peck.

The day will end and you will go;
The same with me but mine different
You’ll go and that is all for you
For me a judgment do await

But worse still, ordinances are legion
Which one to take, which one to leave?
Here on yonder tree you think none that.
You have your woes I have my own
But cheerful friend you still go on

I’ll cast my burden upon HIM
For I know HE truly cares.