Chaffinch why do you sing so cheerfully and lift my heart tonight?
Is it the dripping cherry-blossomed rows of trees stretching into the distance?
Polished bark pillars of pink and white supporting a regal entourage of…
Diligent bumblebees that furiously work your treasured, fragrant petals
Like there shall again never be, another evening or flower in the entire world.

Or is it just that the sun slants through the heavens to find and caress
Your soft blue and grey feathers with gentle, velvet rays of hope
That the summer comes swiftly and warms your days of wonder
As it does mine for there is love waiting in the world we share
Perhaps we both have found it for I wish also to sing among the blossom

But then sun fades to the west of the world and the dusk closes the day
Yet the heart rises to the joy it feels for like the obsidian shapes that crowd…
Under the branches of sycamore and like a swirling maelstrom of geometry fly,
Jet-black bats swirling and wheeling to the points of an angled map that points
To a constellation of hope made stars that shine my love for you in the heavens

I like the chaffinch lay my head in some safe warm place and sleep alone but…
The nights can never hold fear now for you are with me always till the dawn