Geese And Swans

We have so much to learn about love,
there is so much they could teach us -
if we could only hear their speak,
understand the clicking of their tongues.

There is so much they could teach us,
there’s a map written into their wings
stitched in with care - all those hours
spent grooming each other for fleas.

There’s a map written into their wings -
always showing the way back home.
Even as they’re soaring over oceans,
tundra, a landscape of snow -

always showing the way back home.
Even when they’ve strayed so far,
they know the value of faithfulness,
they know the comfort of a warm hearth.

Even when they’ve strayed so far,
lost in the crowd of babbling,
gaggling geese and swans,
only death could keep them apart.