Day 8, Bald Eagle: Go Bald or Go Home

Day 8, Bald Eagle: Go bald or go home

Ya big galoot

thug of dump and dam

drawn to the easy pickings

the scutter of rats and railroads

preening for the wildlife cam

you throw your weight around

with the goldens and the red-tails

worry the fish from an osprey’s grasp

but turn tail like any bully

when a pesky speck of sparrow

darts and dives and drives you off

you fall in love, once

hard and fast and literally

climb to the top of the sky

with your intended

swearing forever

in a death grip you tumble

bald heads

over talons intertwined

at the last

reason or instinct prevails

but the mortal point is taken:

live together, die alone