Fly away

All of that effort

to raise a young Magpie –

sitting on eggs for weeks,

backwards and forwards

bringing beakfuls of

juicy worms and beetles,

ends as a sad bunch of

feathers smeared across

a busy road.

Much like children

in a war zone.


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