Involucres
birds fly unaware of the danger of the weather.
from their perspective they may not realize
the roofs that shelter us cloistered
trapped in wooden or cement crates
from above the birds follow, without knowing
the ordinary and corrosive parade of days
sabotaging and turning into trash
both dreams and desires
of human generations believed to have been chosen
the birds didn't feel
every sunset of this and other millennia
the scent of goodbye welling up from the shadows
and if later they saw in the avenues
the glare of aimless car headlights
didn't even understand that this is just
another one of the ways that men have
to escape their individual apocalypses
it was some old cold afternoon
that the birds have given up on understanding
the span of their wings and the reason for their lives
the origin of the impulse that took them to fly
it was on an afternoon just like this
long, cold and inhospitable
that the birds beat their wings hard and flew
looking to just be
Copyright © Marco Chies | Year Posted 2022
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