A Song For Today

An owl calls plaintively

from his lonely nest

high up in the evergreen

just past the neighbors house

Another voice echos him

down across the way

It seems a shared question

of which they both do say

A robin pecks at the earth

between blades of grass

another now joins him

searching for breakfast

Bursts of song from many trees

soon fill the morning air

I had no idea

there were so many birds up there

I close my eyes and listen

and wish I too had wings

and a voice fit for singing along

with the uplifting melody