A House With

I wanted to have a house Full of bird life So I went out Bought feeders Bags of seed Hooks and chains And hung them all around the yard Just them outside every window Cardinals Sparrows Goldfinch Juncos Flickers Waxwings Titmouse Buntings Filling up my heart again Filling up my heart again I wanted to have a house Full of plant life So I went out Bought planters Starts and seeds And bags of soil And put them out in every room ​In the corners of the light Geranium Alocasia Jade Tree Philodendron Hydrangea Tradescantia Pye weed Rose of Sharon Night Bloom Aloe Vera Cereus Portulaca Vermillion Spathiphyllum Oxalis Terracotta Filling up my heart again Filling up my heart again I wanted to have a house Full of life and meaning But everything is wild and fleeting It comes and goes Repeating