Bird Of Prey

[J Hillenburg]

Bird Of Prey




Blurred by sentiment, your voice grew vapid and disgusted,

I believe you were finally seeing things as they are.

You had been enchanted with candor but couldn’t be trusted

to be truthful about the nature of your scars.

However, you aspire to intimacy and more ambitious desires,

I know you will come to failure but what can I say?

Though I have had my fill of disaster, and the humility it requires,

I still look to the skies searching for a bird of prey.


As you first set out, many warnings were delivered to you,

but you failed to respect or listen to a word they said.

You expected some innate sense of destiny to carry you through

to some beautiful pearl you thought lay on the road ahead.

So where are you now, where are you going, boy wonder,

after throwing yourself to the wolves in such a dreadful way?

You live in a fog of voices praying to hear some distant thunder

that, perhaps, might convince you there is no bird of prey.


In days long passed, and in days to come, there will be trials

you will be forced to face regardless if you are unprepared.

You have traveled through worlds of regret, and covered many miles,

however, your actions were questionable, and your judgment impaired.

A strange wind blows at your back, and the land is unfamiliar to you,

the world around you seems locked in chaos and disarray.

You would make amends for every transgression if you only knew

it would free of you of your debt to the bird of prey.

[tom.d.stiller]

Dear J,

I like this one very much. I cannot exactly describe the effects the imagery of it had on me, but "the land was familiar" once...

By the way: this would make a great song. I could almost hear the band and the voice sing the lines, when I read it for the first time. A second reading depeened this impression considerably.

Thank you for sharing.

Tom

[witty_owl]

J, Are you a musician- and have you set this to music? The "you" that is addressed in the text- is it the first person or some other second character?

regards,