Little Sparrows

All you little sparrows on a swaying branch

Singing to the cars up on the overpass

When you fly away from here

Take me with you when you go

A herd of antelope

A sea of redwood trees

Schools of shining fish

And a thousand buzzing bees

Overwinter parking lots, the passing geese

Rising in the air, little dandelion seeds

When you fly away from here

Please don't leave me when you go

If I were Jonah

Tossed into the raging sea

I would not fear the whale

Who came to swallow me

All you paper cups rolling down the windy street

All you little ants winding through the tangled weeds

Where you're going I don't care

Take me with you when you go