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The Bluebird's Nest

The bluebird's nest
 
A mother bluebird sits on her eggs,
fretful and worried, looking for the dregs
Of the life that belonged to her.
And all was peaceful and all was right, in the bluebird's nest that night.
And all was good and all was bright, in the bluebird's nest that night.
 
But the alien, the stranger, the outsider,
armed with the knowledge of her own survival
gently places a small token of success,
an egg that will hatch to be a blight upon the nest
that will suck everything away and leave only bones behind.
And all was peaceful and all was right, in the bluebird's nest that night.
And all was good and all was bright, in the bluebird's nest that night.

A set of blue gems
with a spark of life inside
yet among the sapphires was a pearl
the alien, the stranger, the outsider
emerged from inside.
And all was peaceful and all was right, in the bluebird's nest that night.
And all was good and all was bright, in the bluebird's nest that night.

And the alien, the stranger, the outsider
having clawed its way to life
Like a vacuum, began to fill itself up
With whatever may come before it.
And all was peaceful and all was right, in the bluebird's nest that night.
And all was good and all was bright, in the bluebird's nest that night.

Growing in strength, stealing the nutrients, the life from those less fortunate,
It began its takeover.
The little bluebirds quivered beneath it.
It will truly be the death of them.
And all was peaceful and all was right, in the bluebird's nest that night.
And all was good and all was bright, in the bluebird's nest that night.

Draining the soul from the nest
Turning the mother bird into a slave of her own child
The bluebirds had no future ahead,
Muddied waters,
An empty horizon.
Emaciated, they began to lose hope. 
And nothing was peaceful and nothing was right, in the bluebird's nest that night.
And nothing was good and nothing was bright, in the bluebird's nest that night.

And the little bluebirds died in the night,
and the alien, the stranger, the outsider had taken everything it had wanted and thrown it all away.
It lost the one thing he didn't feel it needed.
Its "mother's" love.
And all was peaceful and all was right, in the bluebird's nest that night.
And all was good and all was bright , in the bluebird's nest that night.

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Panagiota Romios Date: 10/12/2019 9:59:00 PM A lovely write Panagiota Login to Reply