The World That She Was

from Flora & Fauna by Michael Dornan Music

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Here come the year’s first swallows –
Scissors through blank, white sky.
They bring with them your tomorrows
And tell of an all-time high –
For now, they never tell you
how many summers there are to come.

True – even if you knew, would it act like a starting-gun
To race for the world’s survival?
To beat on the lawman’s door?
Migratory arrivals don’t want to go to war.
People better find a way to live to uplift the earth.
Hey, what better life to save than your elder sister’s?

It’s only because of the world that she was
That there’s air you can breathe

Every species that’s leaving is grieving the heart in me

If you love the birds, then the least they deserve
Is a home that’s preserved

Tell me what kind of a world she’ll be.

I miss the Norfolk starling;
I miss the bluebuck’s bark.
I see the floods are starting,
But I don’t see another ark.

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from Flora & Fauna, released August 30, 2021

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Singer-songwriter based in Devon, UK

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