Flightless Bird - Birthmark

everything you sense is just a bend or a curve

every deviance be it tremor or a breath

is a stray from a potential path

it remains a mystery

that you could not know

you are a stranger

to the cultures of most

see how the children

try to embrace the flightless bird

they couldn’t yet form words

but i could sense what they had wanted to say

i’m only trying to translate

and the room that you’re in

it must not let sense in

of all the futures to visit

i’ll be there dangling off the end

the most bent branch on the tree

you can’t miss me

may other beings brush up against me

how could you not know

you are a stranger

to the cultures of most

see how the children

try to embrace the flightless bird

they couldnt yet form words

but i could sense what they had learned to say

i’m only trying to translate