I Once Had A Bird

I once had a bird

She set her free

She flew far away from me

She says we’ll talk

I don’t see how

She flew so far away

Now

She says the language of our own

Is gone

And so I sit at home

And look at where we laughed and cried

And where she says our language died

I still have words like lovers do

But she can’t hear them now she’s through

And so my poem weeps alone

On What’s App

On her phone