I pray and ask
and beg and seek
tell me, God, what is next
what is the plan
what do You want
I need to know
so I pray and ask
and beg and seek…
…and I listen and walk
and hear only birds
squawking and cooing
tweeting and chirping
twittering and cawing
as I trudge up hills
around curvy bends
through high grasses
burning off the resentments of the day
pounding my feet into the asphalt
trying to stomp it out of me
the stabs
the lies
the demands
as I listen and walk
and hear only birds…
…unfortunately for me
I don’t speak bird.