Eagle Wings

It’s not just keeping Humpty warm and safe Until the hatching time It’s also singing songs of flight For unborn chicks to want to soar as lullabies in long warm nights Before shell walls come tumble down This freedom is a strange and wondrous thing To be defended unto death and yet to sing Of soaring flight on which we wing Lest we forget the wars our fathers fought To give us this responsibility This charge of liberty That stings of strife salt sweat well earned Of life with souls eternal in this harder won fraternal love of living free To work at flights of fancy But most of all to work in working class to build a finer nest for soaring eggs to hatch and sing In well earned free flown joy