Some long agonizing hazy grey days
friendship birds flutter your heart, your mind
pulling and tugging your protective wings
as through a maze,

all-the-while, plucking each other’s feathers with beaks designed for eating and throats to spring forth magnificent songs

yet, seemingly always demanding your emotions
to select which twirling connection is more desirable,
more perfect

leading you actually to consider blissful deflection in therapeutic flight to heightened skies as a glorious escape to one’s emotional delight.

But you perch on a solid ledge instead
with a delicate scratch to a birdbrain’s head
separating these loved ones who vie for love

and you begin a song
designed to try
to blend,
to harmonize
joined voices
strong.

Unity
to peacefully defend
A brotherhood
where all belong.