birdIn the bird’s song is a message
In its insistent stare a sign:
“I’m still with you,” says your loved one
“I exist, and all is fine.”

A butterfly can bring you tidings
A dragonfly can do the same
Any one of God’s creations
Can sing your loved one’s name.

How is it that an animal
Can enact a spirit’s wishes?
It’s because there is no difference
Between birds, and bees, and fishes.

There are no lesser creatures,
No one greater, big or small
Whether human, bird, or animal
The One Mind made them all.

For God is not a being,
But Consciousness supreme
That manifests as all that is
And the spaces in between.

So when a bird does speak to you
And brings a message clear
Recognize your loved one’s breath
As spirit draws them near.

Your loved one has not become the bird
They’ve just joined their minds as one
With the Love that lives in every heart
All sunbeams from one Sun.