It is not for you

You do not know our voice
A lifetime of study cannot hold
Our words in your mind

You do not know of what we speak
Or what we say that is true

We scold your presence
And you do not hear the meaning

We call to others like us
For the continuation of ourselves,
Yelling away the dangers,
To pass a message that is not meant for you

You strain to hear us




High and sweet





Gruff and low



In your arrogance you memorize
The cadence of our kind
But with ten thousand voices
We speak above you


You can hold us for a moment in your hands
To feel the fierce beating of our hearts



But even in that time of intimacy
When you seek to know us,
Small chipping and shrieking screams
Tell a tale that cannot be translated
Into human tongue.


We sing to the skies
To the beyond you cannot see

You assume you know of what we sing to
Putting our phrases into words
And into those words you glean your own ideas


For all the knowledge your brain can hold
It cannot process the heights we praise.

We do not sing for you.