MY WILD BIRD

I love you as you are,

My beloved...

Wild bird,

Free spirit,

Dancer in the wind.

Would I ever wish to

Tame you?

Change you?

Would that not be to

Betray you?

You are who I learned to love.

To change you would make you,

Someone else...

Perhaps someone,

I couldn't love as much.

Or...

Could love me as much then,

As the woman you are now does.

I'll take my wild bird,

My free spirit,

Who dances in our dreams,

And takes me with her.

• Donovan Baldwin