Chirp, A Little Sparrow

Chirp chirp, I stir

As I hear against rain drops

Chirp Chirp, I stand still

Chirp, was that?

Chirp, How could that be?

Chirp chirp chirp, 

After a long long time, did I hear that call 

Chirp chirp, I step out

Excited, It was indeed

Chirp chirp, My heart swells in mirth

Chirp, I beam

Chirp, as if I had seen

Chirp chirp chirp

An old old friend from better days

Chirp chirp, there it was

Fluffy, small and incredibly jumpy

Chirp chirp I smiled in full

Chirp, looking at it pick seed

Chirp chirp chirp

Little little sparrow, Where have you been?

Chirp It settled

Under a leaf in a half-dried climber

Chirp chirp waiting for drizzle to cease

Chirp, It looked lonely

Chirp, I shivered and step back

Chirp chirp chirp

Just just think, How tough its life might have been

Nooks and crevices gone

In ritzy new apartments

Seeds and scatter gone

In sterile superstores

Gardens and park gone

In urban concrete glut

Where does it live? where does it live?

Chirp, It persisted

Bringing me back to present

Chirp chirp, when I could gladly stay in past

Chirp, when there was an army of sparrows

Chirping in my backyard

Chirp chirp chirp

Dear dear, where have they all gone?

Chirp, it flew away in a second

Chirp chirp, its noise still ringing in rain

Chirp, then went mute

Chirp just the way its clan did

Chirp chirp chirp

Little little sparrow, When will I hear you again?