Shuttered birds flutter from balmy bough
Shedding feathery cloak that winter's chill did endow
Fueling grounded wings with solar beams
Pairing together in reconnoitering teams
Scouting hill and dale, Spring's contraband to glean
Garnishing their bunkers with bristling thigs and thatched screen
Prating loudly in fecund court; feathers carefully preen
In rhapsodic chorus their prancing feet to and fro careen
Dancing in harmony; their mating anthem rings
Matriarch's incubating wings over fertile plaster clings
In due course, waddling, furry chicks from each blanched shell springs
Frugal pilots navigate their sparsely furnished compound
Probing each nook; scouring each mound
Pulse and liquids their drills and talons impound
With nutritious cargo in tow homeward bound
Returning to nursery, satiating each bleating sound
Suddenly I see now
Let me take a bow
An extraordinary encore to the first chapter
Look at the before and after
Listen to the birth of common sense
I learn as the ignorance begins to rinse
Momma told it'll be days like this
I laugh at the simple thigs I miss
Suddenly it's all starting to come together
practice makes better
Grandma told me there's more room on the outside
Than the inside
Suddenly I see
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