I'm waking with these feelings
flying all about me
like birds
or butterflies
or both

They're making me confused
with all their fluttering
and because they are so many
all related to a future
- and a past

I don't know which wing
belongs to who
and if what I see
is what's to be
or should have been
or just a ghost
of some forgotten dream

So I rise
and put my robe on
walk about on naked feet
and hold my breath
to listen
is there something I can hear
if I can't see?

Wings inside my robe
are stilling
and when I close my eyes
I feel as if I hold a little bird
inside my hand
What is it that she wants
what is she saying
why am I so full of tremble
and why my eyes
so full of tears?