Familiar Voices
Familiar Voices
A familiar sound came through my open window
Causing a smile to spread across my face
Instinctively I knew something was good
Is it that time of year again already?
It was the voice of an old friend
I hadn’t heard for the most part of a year
Good morning Sir how have you been?
And he repeated his unique call
Unlike his friends who used more common speech
His upward ending note set him apart
And that this misfit chose to return to my home
Makes me laugh that I have been singled out
The sound throws a switch inside me
I hear the varied chatter of his cousins and brothers
It wakens my senses to the world around me
And heightens my appreciation of being alive
Tasting the spring flower scent around me
I hear the sound of the sea in the distance
The clouds take on new forms in front of my eyes
And the warm air raises the hair on my bare arms
It is spring again and the birds have come to sing it
All my regulars returned and brought new faces
And I know that something good has happened
That the world is returning to better health
©Copyrighted by Colin Ryan (2010)
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