Sing Your Sweet Song, Dear Bird

(April 14th, 2022)

Sing your sweet song again, dear bird

I think you feel you’ve lost your voice

And the sound you make hurts you more than silence

But oh, how I miss that sweet noise

I realized it’s been years since I heard it

The melody would echo through our home

It used to make you so delighted to sing

Your eyes lit up as you thought on days of old

That sweet vibrato was our first teacher 

Giving us those childhood songs we know

I wish you would stay ever confident 

Knowing your old voice still holds the power of hope

Sing, sing again, my dear bird 

Even if you think you’ve lost your voice

It will again make children out of us 

Remembering our mother and her heart’s sweet noise