A Close Call

I had a moment when

the birds were laughing.

I almost walked away

from my chance at humility.

What did they know about

hard ground and hard knocks

of the human kind?

Lucky for me I waited

before turning and

walking on my shadow;

I wanted to move that fast.

They weren’t laughing,

it was the translation in my mind

that screwed up the message.

“Tweet, sweet”, they said

“Tweet, sweet.”