Songbirds, such as sparrows, don’t have
much of a chance to live long lives.
Predators kill 70 percent of them
before they reach old age.
How I hated to read about that.
Sweet singing little birds’ lives snuffed out,
always having to worry about being killed.
Awful way to have to live.
How I hate that part of nature.
How I wonder why a Creator set things
up like that.
If I didn’t believe in a benevolent God
it would be easier to accept the tragic
deaths of little singing birds.
Though I wouldn’t like it, I’d reason
that’s just the way it is.
But it saddens me that those little birds
don’t have much of a chance in life.
And always have to be fearful that
a lurking predator is going to end
them forever.
And I hate how there is so much
carnage in nature.
Bob Boyd