The Willingness to Live, A Desire to Survive

I saw a bird,
Searching and gathering the twigs,
For the walls to hide within,
It ceaselessly collected the 'bricks',
Realizing or not,
That soon the sky would be sheathed,
Wherein the thunderous clouds would breathe,
The cold will deepen with stormy rains,
But the bird is remote, to the approaching pain,
The night passes midst the winds and the downpour,
Leaving me anxious, for the morrow,

The Sun peeps in, through the branches torn,
And a tear slips through my eyes, the nest is gone,
Oh but look! The bird is right there,
Searching and gathering twigs,
For the walls to hide within,
Undeterred by what yesterday brought,
A new morrow is all that it sought,

And so was solved the most onerous puzzle,
The pieces put together, well defined and unruffled,
That it is here, within oneself,
Wherein lies,
The willingness to live,
A desire to survive.......

(c) SS








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