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A Song For a Chicken

from Glowball Worming by Gloworm

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This is a song for a chicken
It’s not just for people with chickens
It’s not just for humans who’ve lost animals they’ve loved

Cause I know she can hear me
I know she is listening
I know she believed the things I whispered to her head as she laid there shaking that night in my hands

“It’s ok we’re home now, it’s ok, you’re safe. It’s ok, it’s ok, I know you’ve waited all day for me. It’s ok, we’ll always love you, you’ll always be with us, it’s ok to let go now.”

And she peeped out her Goodbyes, coughed and closed her eyes for the last time; warm and boney, like I hope to pass should I get the chance of knowing.

Should I get the chance of choosing how I go, may I go as a bird who was bound for life on the ground who finally found the wings to fly.

This is still a song for a chicken, but I don’t think she would mind if you sang it.
I don’t think she would mind if you hummed it over garden graveyards and living tombstones.

Cause I know she can hear me
I know she is listening
I know she believed the things I whispered to her head as she laid there shaking that night in my hands, black and hollow with wings of an angel.

Yeah, I’m serious, and seriously losing it
I hear her song in every tree
It’s telling me to wrap my shell in pleasant cloth and place it in my cradle coffin (shoebox with holes cut in the top), bury it and forgive yourself

Because sometimes bodies, and it’s not always a question of “Why?”
It’s more a matter of time and you’ll spend it a little confused trying to make sense of this world

A consequence of having someone to love is having someone to miss eventually.

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from Glowball Worming, released January 15, 2013

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