Two and twenty blackbirds
Wings on fire
Ending life in a flurry
Never thinking twice
Turning back to the beginning
Your life on the line
Time sparks turning red
Wind blown life on embers
Enough to start again
Never turning back to see
Tiny new-borns flying free
Your life recounted making three
Tiny blackbird wings outspread
Wing and a prayer, nothing is ever truly dead
Over land and sea, you’ll see them fed…


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