The Bird Man
He talked to
himself –
softly but
openly,
and with crooked
finger he pointed
skywards,
imitating a
flying bird, moving
his hands like
wings.
I was glad
to watch him
because I wanted
him to be right –
and he was,
there was something
flying up there.
He smiled – pleased
to be sane enough
to know that birds
fly too.
Stephen Philip Druce is a poet based in Shrewsbury in the UK. He is the creator of Switch Poetry: poems that switch alternatively in sentiment, from the comedic to the melancholic within a single reading. To hear the first audio performance of Switch – http://youtu.be/nLBrHCkeSMg