The Bluebird

Copyright © 1987 by Tiki Kritzer Seger.  All rights reserved.

 

I found him lying twisted on the icy snow

One tiny, frightened eye staring into space

And as I lifted up his bent and broken body

His once proud head fell limply out of place

 

It's a cold winter

It's a cold world

It's a hard life

It's a hard game

And it's always just the same

Full of pain

 

I brought him in the house to thaw

And pulled out all of his brightly colored feathers

Then I gently laid him on the ground

And left him at the mercy of the weather

 

It's a cold winter

It's a cold world

It's a hard life

It's a hard game

And it's always just the same

Full of pain

 

The cold is cruel to little creatures

In the winter many things will die

Oft I picture that tiny, broken bluebird

Gazing at nothing with its one lonely eye

 

It's a cold winter

It's a cold world

It's a hard life

It's a hard game

And it's always just the same

Full of pain

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