light up our backyard.
A bird that flew five thousand miles
is trilling six bright notes.
This bird flew over mountains and valleys
and tiny dolls and pencils
of children I will never see.
Because this bird is singing to me,
I belong to the wide wind,
the people far away who share
the air and the clouds.
Together we are looking up
into all we do not own
and we are listening.
by Naomi Shihab Nye
from Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman
Illustrated by Michael Emberley
Little Brown and Company, 2012
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