The Call to My Heart

Inside it holds memories
“Flap Flap” like a bird flying over head.
The colour, the texture, represents Australia.
The shape is like a small horse shoe.

Always wanted - so cherished from
the first time it was put in my hands.
Always protected by soft gentle fingers.
To be given away, then only to my mother
who knows its worth.

Fading away for six years
Is a golden whistle,
The one thing that I know is that you are still special to me.
And you will always be.
It is really my whistle.
My only bird whistle.