Two Birds

Two Birds

Adam and Eve parakeets, the children’s intro to the wild life.

Yes she henpecked him

At night he would pick the lock on the cage, ease out of the cage cove

Out he would fly-

He hung out all night

Daily

Day in and day out

 

She always squaked, squabbled, nagged

And cleaned his feathers

Each night, he made his grand escape

Before returning home in the morning to his cage

He, Adam, would fly to each room

And pick our hair, our cheek

And wake us for the new day

Then Adam returned home to his henpecked environment

This ritual continued for almost a year

Our family commented one day,

One day, we are going to find Eve, flattened out

And Adam will be out of his misery

And then, it happened

One night, Adam and Eve, both out of the cage, walking on the living room floor and conversating

She fell over and died

The next day the children shoe-boxed her, buried her in the backyard facing the kitchen window

Adam stood duty on the kitchen window facing Eve’s grave

Never moved or ate anymore food-

Just looked out daily, without movement

And one morning, Adam lay on the kitchen floor, dead of a broken heart

A henpecked man does not mean an unhappy man if she’s the Love of his Life.