Please

a plea for returns

Photo by Dean Truderung on Unsplash

i need new words
now — while i still have breath
to push them out
one by one
birthing meaning
returning to my right mind

for four years now
i’ve sung no new songs
had only this stunned silence
offered nothing from this space
emptied by shock

only today i saw
two baby house wrens
flip up their tails
bubble first notes
try their fresh voices

is it in these little ones then
we will find a map
a way back to living words
to music and to joy?