Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Noodlings on Sight and Necessity

What a foolish bird it is
Who flies into the window pane!
He breaks his neck for want of care
He ends his life for lack of brain.

Or is really quite so neat?
Is 'foolish' really 'lack of sight'?
The thing that killed him wasn't there
Until the bruise brought on the night.

He was winging as his wont
Bound to fly within his ease
Hurtling t'wards an end of ends
As surely's from a dread disease.

2 comments:

John said...

But then aren't we all hurtling towards an end?

W.B. Picklesworth said...

Indeed we are. And we are less aware than we'd like to think.