Mockingbird Lullaby

MOCKINGBIRD LULLABY Sometimes he walks before the town wakes up. He walks a path down by the bay. It’s usually quiet and serene…usually…but not this day. Usually he walks in silence where only the softest sounds are heard that changed when he reached the center of town and was confronted…by a bird. A mockingbird began chirping loudly then she flew around his head… She stopped on the sidewalk in front of him… “Follow me.” She said. At least that’s what he thought she said. After all…he didn’t understand a word for he is just a man and she…a mockingbird. But he followed her across the street where she landed in a tree and as she kept chirping loudly he wondered ‘What does she want from me?’ He saw that she was in her nest making bird sounds he’d never heard and then he saw what she was fussing about… On the ground…a baby mockingbird. Her baby must have fallen and here she came to rest so gently…softly…he picked her up and returned her to the nest. The mother mockingbird thanked him He could see it in her eyes And he smiled as he walked away listening to a mockingbird lullaby. At least he thought it was a lullaby After all…he didn’t understand a word for he is just a man and she…a mockingbird.