A World Without Birds

In years from now will the children of the future on warm evenings in the prime of Spring On trees and bushes in groves, woods and parklands when flowers are blooming hear the wild birds sing For a World without birds would be sad to live in and sad to learn that they are becoming rare These are sad times for people who love Nature and who for Nature's creatures genuinely do care, A World without birds to think of even painful something that one would not rather contemplate For birds seem an integral part of Nature the poets and painters them do celebrate They have been in the World for perhaps longer than humans they have evolved from the dinosaur age Humans even use them for their entertainment they keep them in an aviary or a cage But birds should never be held in captivity as Nature's creatures meant to live naturally They are not meant to be captives of humans in Nature's World they should live wild and free For bird lovers it must be disappointing to know their numbers are on the decline So nice to hear them singing in the gardens when flowers are blooming in the Spring sunshine The demise of birds the thought even unpleasant a sadder World without them it would be They are so much an integral part of Nature at least that is how it does seem to me.