The Blackbird

   
        
How does he do it?      
His brain no more than finger nail,      
singing a scale of notes I cannot sing      
nor can forget.      
What does he say? It seems he knows      
but what? Is there some communication...      
a radiating beam that strikes the tiles?      
the message always clearer      
when he sings upon the roof.      
Black as night, she,brown ,discrete,  
a job to do     keep warm and safe.  
Silence is the key,  ...  ...   ...     
eight is late, to bed, one last egg to hatch.    
      
If he could write would he write it down.....      
all those notes without a scale, more than twelve,      
an alphabet of sounds as random as the sea.      
Would he even try ? Each note sent its way      
the thought... if thought there be, lost above the roof.      
There is no past for him ,no future, all is now.      
no thinking in the melody save joy and being well.      
Yesterday ? What is that ? Never heard of yesterday      
of today..........doesn’t even care,      
How long will it be? What is long ? Is it a worm?      
A brain no more than fingernail only room for hope.      
        
Maybe I'm wrong  ...  ...  ...  ...    
There a message in your song          
I leave space to listen, to you kind soul,     
your life so short........'though long enough,      
Just long enough  ...  ...  ...  no more  
when song is gone so will you be gone .      
It’s all you want to do.