Broken Sparrow

Summary

Broken Sparrow reflects on resilience, self-doubt, and renewal—poetic meditations on perspective, persistence, and transformation at dreamwhack.

Broken Sparrow: Perched high at the edge of a cliff is a broken sparrow. The sparrow is broken in the sense that its spirit is disturbed. Air flows from its life experiences disturb it. These flows restrict its ability to soar. It can’t fly in the wind as it is meant to.

The sparrow watches longingly at the vastness of its surroundings. It knows that the only limits to it are those it places on itself. Limits that hinder its movements and restrain a deeper understanding of itself.

With a song the sparrow chips, squeals, and whistles {see songs that sparrow makes), in distress of its self-imposed restraints. Self-imposed restraints are products of the sparrow’s learning and life experiences. Life experiences that the sparrow made for itself.

Then seemingly out of context of the sparrow’s current feelings of despair, the sparrow makes soft, contented warbles and chirps. These soft warbles and chirps are a sign that the sparrow feel compressed but is not defeated.

The air is life-sustaining. The ground and the water supply rest and food. The currents of winds are portals for mobility. And its wings, though battered, are suitable for flight. Wings of the sparrow that are suitable for flight with the right state of mind. The sparrow’s mindset ensures stability. It refuses to let a transient attitude alter its inherent disposition.

A pebble becomes dislodged above the sparrow and nearly smacks the sparrow’s head as it falls from the cliff. Instinctively the sparrow slightly moves its head out of the path of the pebble’s impending impact to its head.

For safety reasons, the sparrow did not watch the pebble. It is perched at the edge of a high cliff. The pebble continued its fall to the ground. The sparrow heard its impact. The sparrow contemplates the event thoughtfully. It realizes that an instant is all it takes for everything to change.

The sparrow looks out into the distance and flutters its wings. Dust is produced when the sparrow flutters its wings. With effort and persistence, it can gradually wear away this cliff and the mountain that supports it the sparrow thinks.

The insistent sounds of chips, squeals, and whistles showing distress are now gone. They are replaced by a chorus of soft warbles and chirps. These new sounds show a renewed confidence in the sparrow’s ability to improve its situation. Improve its circumstances for the better, taking hits as they come while delivering its blows.

With a leap, the sparrow frees itself from the edge of the cliff. A wind flowing into all possibilities catches the sparrow, and it soars.