Why do birds matter? Why?
How could a world so be
Where birdsong never trilled
From each surrounding tree?
Where parrots never squawked
In colours like a jewel,
Nor eagles rode the sky
With talons sharp and cruel?
No mother ducks to teach
Their little fluffs to swim?
Nor swallows in their dance
Who dart and turn and skim?
No terraces bedecked
With peacocks’ wondrous tails,
No kookaburra glee
When our own laughter fails?
No question-mark-necked swans
To grace each lake or stream,
No flash of brilliant wings
To teach us how to dream?
No tender nests to show
Us safety when we cry,
No tossing from the nest
To teach us how to fly?
No albatross to claim
The wild waves as its home,
Secure with its own wings
However far it roam?
And how else could we learn
The deepest truth of all:
How much we’re loved by him
Who marks each sparrow’s fall?
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