Left Behind

Oh little bird

Have they left you behind?

Are you striving

To be thriving with the rest of the flock

All the while diving deeper and deeper?

Look back flock

You fly so tightly together

Pressing ever onward and higher

But one is missing

Turn back

Turn back

The hawk sits waiting

Only you can save the lost one

Turn back to let them draft behind you

Lift them with your buoyancy

For someday you may be weak

And tired

And cannot flap your wings once more

For someday you may be the one

Left behind.