Emotional Connection

Cockatoo, cockatoo, I hear you whistling to me

catcalls from next door when you hear my tread

talk to me, talk to me, I need some response

I can almost see you stamping your feet.

I’m deeply involved with you, substitute male

feel an emotional connection to you when I answer

no demands from you but insist I retort promptly

when I’m alone in my kitchen fixing dinner.

You make a really good companion as you play

different tunes to which I respond in melody echo.

If you ever become silent, I’ll be so forlorn

without you, little cockatoo, to keep me in line.

And if a friend wonders why I whistle all day

I’ll tell her I am signaling my very special male.