I envy the migratory birds their freedom from Country to Country they fly <br />Their wings take them to distant places they travel thousands of miles by sky <br />Their life span is a brief span but they travel far and wide <br />Above the timeless oceans and miles of countryside <br />They live an average of thirty Seasons in time not a lengthy span <br />But they see more of the World than the most trvelled woman or man <br />I envy them their freedom they fly thousands of miles every year <br />From the coldness of the Artic to the warm Southern Hemisphere <br />They are the feathered wanderers they fly from pole to pole <br />The travel bug is in them till age of them takes toll <br />In the cool chill of the morning above the southern shore <br />They fly northwards towards their Artic breeding grounds twelve thousand miles or more <br />From the warm Southern Hemisphere they are born to migrate <br />They fly over many time zones and time for them doesn't wait.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-envy-the-migratory-birds/
