THE LONELY SPARROWA Poem by NeiL ArandAI lie awake and I have become a lonely bird alone on a rooftop. Psalm 102:7
perched on a tree Tiny and insignificant no one seems to see.
Their tattered coats were brown speckled with black Feathers ruffled as the wind beat upon their back.
Two small sparrows that God forgot In one stormy night one fell and the other did not.
One lone speckled sparrow went on and on Looking in vain for the one that was gone.
Its downcast eyes looked dimmed, brokenhearted soul achin' but can't fly away to escape the rain.
Once a cheerful little bird who enjoyed a company There was little left to find but the comfort of the canopy.
Neither a robin nor a jay would dare come It won't say a word because of what it has become.
Mundane and indifference forced this lone sparrow to flee And now it has no other place to live but on a broken tree.
I saw that little speckled sparrow sitting alone on that old tree And I cry in silence because the sparrow was me ... by NeiL ArandA 10/2005 © 2015 NeiL ArandAAuthor's Note
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