You Must Understand The Mockingbird Poem by RIC BASTASA

at night
the mockingbird still
haunts her

it's nature is to mock
to imitate
it cannot get away from it
otherwise
it dies
otherwise it ceases to be
one good mocking bird

you must understand
nature
there are those who live
to copy
because they are born to be
that way

if you get irritated
by the mockingbird
that becomes
your own responsibility

pity,
soon you will cease
pity
the mockingbird shall sing
a funeral song for you

if not write an elegy.