Dead Crow's Nest

I was wandering the road, only dawdling because I wished to not return home.
Clouds covered the sky like an endless gray sheet. The dull leaves rattled from the harsh wind that now stormed from the west. I should have hurried on home, but why rush? It was safer out here.
Alone.
Something fluttered above. I glance up to spy a mangy crow on a low branch. He caws like he is singing, singing to the empty world.
I smile, because I am like him. Dark and dirty, no one but myself, no limit of my life. If I could, I would fly away. But I can't. Because I am dead to this world. No hobbies, no sports, not even a best friend.
The crow caws out, but tilts his triangular head to me. His embry eyes mock my wingless ability.
"Cry out, laugh all you want," I courageously announce, "You can't break me. I am already a shatter puzzle."
I shake my head. What am I saying? This bird can't understand me. But as I walk away, he seems to be calling me.
"What do you want?" I demand as I whirl around. But the crow is not there. The wind picks up and water my eyes, but I still search the roadside. The crow is gone.
I spin around to continue my stroll, but something crunches under my feet. I jump back and gaze into the dead eyes of two baby birds in a nest. Baby crows.
That's why the crow calls. She calls for her lost family, lost love.
"I understand too," I whisper, as the crow appears on another branch, "I lost something too."
I don't bother to step forward. Instead, I bend over and pick up the fallen nest in my cold hands, staring at the poor dead birds.
"I cry for you," I mutter as I place them in the tall grass on the gravel's edge. "I just hope someone will be there to cry for me."

Playlist of Her Life

1.     “Born This Way”—Lady Gaga

2.     “At The Beginning”—Donna Lewis and Richard Marx

3.     “I’ll Always Love My Mama”—The Intruders

4.     “Growing Up Like That”—Rodney Atkins

5.     “Love Story”—Taylor Swift y

6.     “Ignition”—TobyMac

7.     “Alone Again (Naturally)”—Gilbert O’Sullivan

8.      “Life is a Highway”—Rascal Flatts

9.     “Larger Than Life”—Backstreet Boys

10.  “Fighter”—Christina Aguilera

11.  “Here I Am”—Bryan Adams

12.   “Because You Live”—Jesse McCartne

13.  “Bye Bye Bye”—NSYNC

14.  “Circle of Life”—Carmen Twillie and Lebo M