A Baby Mockingbird

Sitting in my front yard, A mockingbird fell from a tree. And I couldn't see it in my heart, To just sit there and let him be. I picked him up, amid the din, His parents were raising all around. With so many cats, it would have been a sin, To leave him sitting on the ground. I tried to put him in his tree, But he flew down again. It seems to me he couldn't see, The danger he was in. I took him inside, and put him in, A little bird cage that I have. Planning to return him to his kin, When he was strong enough to leave. In the morning I went to see the mockingbird, Just to make sure that he was fed. And though no peep all night I heard, The little mockingbird was dead. It broke my heart to see him so, And now my soul is in a rage. All I wanted was to see him go, None of God's creatures should be caged. 7/15/10 Alton Texas