Love Poem to a Pigeon

Love Poem To a Pigeon

Sweet bird of mine
I do not know why you stay behind
My bedroom window
The cooing, the desperate attempts
To come inside

You are the color of a rain cloud
Your eyes like hot embers
You sit across the abyss
Stares as cold as a Minnesota December

Every morning your calls wake me
Every afternoon your struggles exist
They say when you are in love
You close your eyes and The One is there
I must love you
Because every time I close my eyes
You, you force them open again

You must love me too
Because you made your home next to mine
Dying to be close to me, you carved it into the wall
But really, almost dying to be close to me, you can hardly fit there at all
Skydiving into a Par 4 hole
Your devotion actually defies the whole “gravity law”

Oh the things you do for me, sweet bird of mine
You never let me forget you are there
Reminding me of your love
Every moment of the day
At any moment of the night
Yanking me from my dreams
And back to you