If I Were A Bird

I wake up each and every day

Filled with nothing but misery

Every morning is like the one before

Get up, get dressed and out the door

Sitting in traffic, waiting to pay my fee

Wishing that someone would just kill me

Every day, I wish that I could die

But, then I look up into the sky

I wish that I could be a bird

To you, I’m sure that sounds absurd

Just watching them soar and be free

Oh, how I wish that could be me

I wish that I could flap my wings

Not worry about buying things

I would glide on the waves in the sky

To be that free, I’d surely cry

Working my old nine to five

Like a worker bee in his hive

It has me feeling oh so bored

Should I impale myself with a sword

Even time off doesn’t bring much release

It feels much more like a tease

It shows how much better life would be

If only I was a bird and set free

I wish that I could be a bird

Never seen and never heard

Tired of screaming, tired of crying

Tired of war and people dying

I wish that I could soar in the air

To feel so free, just flying there

No hunger, greed or poverty

All would have just what they need

Paying taxes to subsidize the rich

Hurts, but can’t scratch the itch

Why do humans complicate the world

Life is confusing, oh so whirled

Tired of seeing my fellow man ache

It’s just way more than I can take

There’s homeless people that I see

Better we make a home in a tree

I wish that I could be a bird

There’d be no hate and no ferd

We would all be a family

Just come and listen to my plea

I wish that I could be a bird

Surely friend, you’ve not misheard

Once you live as all birds do

You’ll wish you were a bird too