Parental Love Poem by Francis Duggan

He would kill and eat their baby birds the songbirds seem to know
So they do their best their very best to frighten off the crow
Their babies from such an awful fate they risk their lives to save
They even mob the bigger bird they are so very brave
In Nature as in the Human World the strongest seem to rule
But in Nature's World to kill to eat should not be seen as cruel
A sense of cruelty as such birds or animals do not feel
A smaller thing is nothing more to them than just a meal
The songbirds are chirping loudly a crow to their nest nearby
They even chirp and peck at him as around him they do fly
But he is unfazed by them where he is perched he stay
And from their territory he refuses to fly away
For a crow a young nestling is a tasty morsel for to eat
And I like millions of other human beings too enjoy the taste of meat.