Taking flight never felt so hard.
Looking down, my feathers were gone.
I can see it now,
The way they laughed at me
Each time I’d jumped from caged windows trying to fly.
Dad scooped me off the pavement again and
shoved me back on stage,
“Sing lizzybird, sing”
I opened my beak
And let out a scream.
What a marvelous sound
They thought was a song