You saw a tree full of birds today.

You don’t even know the name of the tree.

Or the name of the birds.

You would look it up later.

It was strange.

It brought back a memory.

You stood and stared at it for a while.

When you were younger.

On your way to school.

There was a tree just like it.

But bigger really bigger.

There were these birds with their nests all in the branches.

Always flying always chirping.

There were a lot of them.

They were a spectacle.

They fascinated you.

You always imagined what it’d be like to be one of them.

Then one day they just disappeared.

The birds.

The tree.

Home to thousands of birds and their nests and their eggs.

All gone.

Just because of a road.

You never knew what happened to it.

And you had always wondered about the tree.

You didn’t even remember it being felled.

You just remembered it being gone.

What about the birds?

Where’d they live?

Where’d they go?